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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>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
44	the automatic Guest Additions update.</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
53	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
58	by François Revol</para>
59	</listitem>
60
61	<listitem>
62	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
67	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	</itemizedlist>
71
72	</sect1>
73
74	<sect1>
75
76	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
77
78	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
79	were added:</para>
80
81	<itemizedlist>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
101	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
106	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
111	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
116	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
117	planned. (bug #81)</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
122	</listitem>
123
124	<listitem>
125	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
126	documentation for more information</para>
127	</listitem>
128
129	</itemizedlist>
130
131	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
132
133	<itemizedlist>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
137	on Mountain Lion</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
142	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
143	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
148	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
153	nested paging</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
158	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
163	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
168	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
181	</listitem>
182
183	<listitem>
184	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
193	</listitem>
194
195	<listitem>
196	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
205	guests</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
210	used ISO images</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
215	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
220	(bug #9973)</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
225	(bug #9864)</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
230	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
231	immediately</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
236	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
241	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
242	any time using the VM menu</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	<listitem>
258	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
275	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
284	support for v2 images)</para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	<listitem>
288	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
293	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
306	VirtualBox update</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
311	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	</itemizedlist>
319	</sect1>
320
321	<sect1>
322	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
323
324	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
325	added:</para>
326
327	<itemizedlist>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
331	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
332	and others)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
337	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
342	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
347	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
352	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
357	(bug #10631)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
362	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
363	(bug #10624)</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
372	updated (bug #9887)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	</itemizedlist>
380	</sect1>
381
382	<sect1>
383	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
384
385	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
386	added:</para>
387
388	<itemizedlist>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
392	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
393	</listitem>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
397	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
402	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
403	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
408	guests in rare cases</para>
409	</listitem>
410
411	<listitem>
412	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
417	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
422	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
423	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
424	</listitem>
425
426	<listitem>
427	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
436	reason (bug #6189)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
445	paused</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
450	(bug #10267)</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
459	(bug #10418)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
464	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
465	(bug #10581)</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
470	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
475	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
476	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
481	</listitem>
482
483	</itemizedlist>
484
485	</sect1>
486
487	<sect1>
488	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
489
490	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
491	added:</para>
492
493	<itemizedlist>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
497	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
498	(bug #3783)</para>
499	</listitem>
500
501	<listitem>
502	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
507	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
512	</listitem>
513
514	</itemizedlist>
515
516	</sect1>
517
518	<sect1>
519	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
520
521	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
522	added:</para>
523
524	<itemizedlist>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
528	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
529	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
534	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
539	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
552	4.1.10 regression)</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
561	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	<listitem>
569	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
570	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
575	4.1.10 regression)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
580	closed (bug #6473)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
585	properly installed</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	</itemizedlist>
593	</sect1>
594
595	<sect1>
596	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
597
598	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
599	added:</para>
600
601	<itemizedlist>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
605	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
610	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
615	fusion</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
620	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
625	and network mask attributes</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
630	(bug #10030)</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
635	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
648	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
657	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
662	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
667	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
680	</listitem>
681
682	<listitem>
683	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
684	</listitem>
685
686	<listitem>
687	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
696	in a zone</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
705	(bug #9651)</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
714	#10010)</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
719	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
724	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
733	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
738	(bug #10151)</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
743	guests</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
752	</listitem>
753
754	<listitem>
755	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	</itemizedlist>
759	</sect1>
760
761	<sect1>
762	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
763
764	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
765	added:</para>
766
767	<itemizedlist>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
771	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
780	(bug #9642)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
785	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
786	</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
795	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
800	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
817	circumstances</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
826	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	<listitem>
830	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
831	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
832	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
833	and for 3D support in general</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
846	</listitem>
847
848	<listitem>
849	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
850	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	</itemizedlist>
854	</sect1>
855
856	<sect1>
857	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
858
859	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
860	added:</para>
861
862	<itemizedlist>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
870	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
875	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
880	certain guests</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
889	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
890	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
895	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
904	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
913	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
918	guests</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
923	folders</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
928	shared folders</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
933	users and stale sessions</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
938	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	</itemizedlist>
942	</sect1>
943
944	<sect1>
945	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
946
947	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
948	added:</para>
949
950	<itemizedlist>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
954	bug #9458)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
959	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
964	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
973	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
978	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
983	(bug #9308)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
988	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
993	(bug #9503)</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
998	(bug #9242)</para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
1003	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
1004	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1013	images</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1018	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1023	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1028	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1033	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1038	#9387)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1043	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1048	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1053	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1058	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1071	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1076	(bug #1578)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1081	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1086	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1091	(bug #9535)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1096	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1101	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1106	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1111	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1116	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1121	</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1126	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1127	</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1132	(bug #6229)
1133	</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1138	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1143	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1148	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1153	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1158	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1163	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1168	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1173	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	</itemizedlist>
1177	</sect1>
1178
1179	<sect1>
1180	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1181
1182	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1183	added:</para>
1184
1185	<itemizedlist>
1186
1187	<listitem>
1188	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1193	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1202	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1207	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1212	a live snapshot</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1217	due to a library version conflict</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1222	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1227	at a time by default</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1232	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1233	#9368)</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1238	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1243	VMs</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1248	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1253	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1254	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1259	(bug #9308)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1264	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1273	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1278	(bug #9242)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1283	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1288	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1293	USB devices</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1298	and warn about it</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1311	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1316	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1321	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1326	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1331	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1336	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1341	2.6.37 and above</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	</itemizedlist>
1345	</sect1>
1346
1347	<sect1>
1348	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1349
1350	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1351	were added:</para>
1352
1353	<itemizedlist>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1357	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1358	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1371	bug #7822)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1380	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	<listitem>
1384	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1385	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1386	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1387	anymore)</para>
1388	</listitem>
1389
1390	<listitem>
1391	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1392	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1397	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1398	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1403	</para>
1404	</listitem>
1405
1406	<listitem>
1407	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1408	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1409	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1414	with VBoxManage</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1419	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422
1423	</itemizedlist>
1424
1425	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1426
1427	<itemizedlist>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1443	of the current state</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1452	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1457	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1458	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1463	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1476	dialog</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1481	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1482	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1487	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1492	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1497	be a valid UUID</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1502	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1507	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1508	cases</para>
1509	</listitem>
1510
1511	<listitem>
1512	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1513	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1514	improve performance</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1519	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1520	on a temporary basis</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1525	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1526	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1531	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1536	images in VDI format</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1541	VMDK format</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1546	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1571	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1576	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1581	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1586	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1591	RDP clients</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1600	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1605	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1610	simultaneously</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1615	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1616	location values in many places</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1625	builds</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1634	window (bug #4491)</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1639	removing a VM</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1652	166 and above)</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1657	hosts</para>
1658	</listitem>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1662	</listitem>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1666	from the host</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	</itemizedlist>
1674
1675	</sect1>
1676
1677	<sect1>
1678	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1679
1680	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1681	added:</para>
1682
1683	<itemizedlist>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1691	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1696	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1701	a live snapshot</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1706	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1719	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1724	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1729	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1738	images</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1743	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1747	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1752	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1761	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1766	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1775	(bug #9370)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1780	(bug #9535)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1785	(bug #1578)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1790	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1795	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1796	</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1801	</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1806	2.6.37 and above</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1811	(bug #6229)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1816	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	</itemizedlist>
1820	</sect1>
1821
1822	<sect1>
1823	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1824
1825	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1826	added:</para>
1827
1828	<itemizedlist>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1836	166 and above)</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1841	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1842	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1847	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1848	</listitem>
1849
1850	<listitem>
1851	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1852	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1861	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1866	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1871	builds</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	</itemizedlist>
1879	</sect1>
1880	<sect1>
1881	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1882
1883	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1884	added:</para>
1885
1886	<itemizedlist>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1898	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1903	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1912	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1921	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1926	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1935	</listitem>
1936
1937	<listitem>
1938	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1939	file was not written during export</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1956	binaries</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1965	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1970	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1979	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	</itemizedlist>
1983	</sect1>
1984
1985	<sect1>
1986	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1987
1988	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1989	added:</para>
1990
1991	<itemizedlist>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1995	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
2000	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
2005	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2010	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2015	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2020	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2025	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2030	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2043	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2048	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2057	</listitem>
2058
2059	<listitem>
2060	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2061	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2066	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2071	window</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2076	Fedora 15</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2081	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2086	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2091	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2096	</listitem>
2097
2098	<listitem>
2099	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2100	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	</itemizedlist>
2104	</sect1>
2105
2106	<sect1>
2107	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2108
2109	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2110	added:</para>
2111
2112	<itemizedlist>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2116	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2121	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2126	(bug #8006)</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2131	(bug #8726)</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2144	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2149	(bug #8469)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2154	selectors</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2159	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2164	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2169	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2178	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2191	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2196	I/O error occurred</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2201	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2206	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2211	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2212	if no medium is present</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2221	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2226	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2231	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2240	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2245	library (bug #8063)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2250	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2267	changed on import</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2276	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2281	(bug #8593)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2286	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2291	captured</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2296	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2301	</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2306	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2311	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2316	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2317	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2322	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2331	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2336	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2341	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2362	(bug #7946)</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	</itemizedlist>
2378
2379	</sect1>
2380
2381	<sect1>
2382	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2383
2384	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2385	added:</para>
2386
2387	<itemizedlist>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2391	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2396	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2401	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2406	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2411	number of host network interfaces</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2416	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2425	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2430	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2435	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2444	(bug #6577)</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2449	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2450	(bug #8235)</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2455	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2456	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2465	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2474	(bug #7966)</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2479	</listitem>
2480
2481	<listitem>
2482	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2491	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2504	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2509	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2518	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2523	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2524	(bug #8122)</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2529	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2534	</listitem>
2535
2536	<listitem>
2537	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	<listitem>
2541	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2542	(bug #1548)</para>
2543	</listitem>
2544
2545	<listitem>
2546	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2551	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2560	(bug #8231)</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2565	11.04 Alpha</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2570	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2575	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2580	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2585	with VBoxGINA</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	</itemizedlist>
2589
2590	</sect1>
2591
2592	<sect1>
2593	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2594
2595	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2596	added:</para>
2597
2598	<itemizedlist>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2602	settings vanished</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2607	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2612	created (bug #8031)</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2621	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2626	an extension pack</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2631	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2640	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2645	host-only interface</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2650	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2655	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2660	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2665	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2670	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2683	guests</para>
2684	</listitem>
2685
2686	<listitem>
2687	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2696	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2701	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2706	a VM start</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2711	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2716	(bug #6067)</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2721	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2726	not saved to machine XML</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2731	#7983)</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2736	#7981)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2745	regression)</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2750	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2755	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	</itemizedlist>
2759
2760	</sect1>
2761
2762	<sect1>
2763	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2764
2765	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2766	were added:</para>
2767
2768	<itemizedlist>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	<listitem>
2775	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2780	<itemizedlist>
2781	<listitem>
2782	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2787	</listitem>
2788
2789	<listitem>
2790	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2795	</listitem>
2796
2797	<listitem>
2798	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2799	states, and optionally including attached
2800	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2801	can do the same now)</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	<listitem>
2805	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	</itemizedlist>
2809	</para>
2810	</listitem>
2811
2812	<listitem>
2813	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>New virtual hardware:
2818	<itemizedlist>
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2821	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2826	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828	</itemizedlist>
2829	</para>
2830	</listitem>
2831
2832	<listitem>
2833	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2834	<itemizedlist>
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2841	</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2846	now</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	</itemizedlist>
2854	</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2859	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2864	Parallels images</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2869	</listitem>
2870
2871	<listitem>
2872	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2873	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2878	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	</itemizedlist>
2882
2883	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2884
2885	<itemizedlist>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2889	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2898	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2903	(bug #1657)</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2916	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2921	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2926	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2927	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2932	again (bug #6864)</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2937	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2942	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2963	</listitem>
2964
2965	<listitem>
2966	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2967	</listitem>
2968
2969	<listitem>
2970	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2975	(bug #7058)</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2980	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2985	circumstances</para>
2986	</listitem>
2987
2988	<listitem>
2989	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2990	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2991	#5578)
2992	</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
3001	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3010	#6760)</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3015	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3020	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3025	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	<listitem>
3033	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3034	file</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3039	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	</itemizedlist>
3043
3044	</sect1>
3045
3046	<sect1>
3047	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3048
3049	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3050	added:</para>
3051
3052	<itemizedlist>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3056	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3061	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3062	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3079	the VM is running</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3084	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3085	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3086	starting from a saved state</para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	<listitem>
3090	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3091	</listitem>
3092
3093	<listitem>
3094	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3095	</listitem>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3111	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3116	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3121	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3126	</listitem>
3127
3128	<listitem>
3129	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3130	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3131	</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3136	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3137	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3142	only)</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3147	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3164	state (bug #4124)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3169	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3178	(bug #2996)</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3183	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3192	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3197	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3202	user accounts for VM information</para>
3203	</listitem>
3204
3205	</itemizedlist>
3206
3207	</sect1>
3208
3209	<sect1>
3210	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3211
3212	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3213	added:</para>
3214
3215	<itemizedlist>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3219	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3220	</listitem>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3236	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3241	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3246	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3251	(bug #4952)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3256	bug #6122)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3261	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3266	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3267	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3276	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3281	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3286	canceled</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	<listitem>
3294	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3295	</listitem>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3307	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3316	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3321	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3330	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3339	circumstances</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3344	printers</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3353	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3358	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3363	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3364	circumstances</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3369	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3374	as supported extension</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3379	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3384	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3393	(bug #7366)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3402	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3407	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3412	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3417	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3422	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3435	more than one environment variable</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3440	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3445	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3450	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3455	enumerating logged in users</para>
3456	</listitem>
3457
3458	<listitem>
3459	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3460	</listitem>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3472	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3481	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3486	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3491	(bug #7448)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	</itemizedlist>
3507
3508	</sect1>
3509
3510	<sect1>
3511	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3512
3513	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3514	added:</para>
3515
3516	<itemizedlist>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3520	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3529	bug #6809)</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3542	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3547	changes</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3556	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3561	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3566	</listitem>
3567
3568	<listitem>
3569	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3582	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3591	(bug #6832)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3596	guests</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3605	without external tools and tricks</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3610	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3619	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3624	shutdown</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3629	fixes</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3634	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3635	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3636	</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3641	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3646	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3651	</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	</itemizedlist>
3667
3668	</sect1>
3669
3670	<sect1>
3671	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3672
3673	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3674	added:</para>
3675
3676	<itemizedlist>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3680	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3685	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3690	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3691	</listitem>
3692
3693	<listitem>
3694	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3695	</listitem>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3711	assigned</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3716	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3721	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3730	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3735	again (bug #7022).
3736	</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3741	(bug #6768)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3746	(bug #6927)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3751	bug #7031)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3756	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3761	bug #6987)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3774	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3783	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3792	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3793	bug #6872)</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3802	(performance tweak)</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3807	is currently paused</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3812	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3821	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3826	not properly saved</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	<listitem>
3830	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3831	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3840	</listitem>
3841
3842	<listitem>
3843	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3848	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3857	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3862	(bug #5251)</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3867	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3880	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3881	</listitem>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3885	</listitem>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	</itemizedlist>
3896	</sect1>
3897
3898	<sect1>
3899	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3900
3901	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3902	added:</para>
3903
3904	<itemizedlist>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3908	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3909	</listitem>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3917	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3922	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3931	again (bug #6864)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3936	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3945	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	</itemizedlist>
3953
3954	</sect1>
3955
3956	<sect1>
3957	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3958
3959	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3960	added:</para>
3961
3962	<itemizedlist>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3970	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3971	</listitem>
3972
3973	<listitem>
3974	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3979	state</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4024	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4029	(bug #6784)</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4034	</listitem>
4035
4036	<listitem>
4037	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4042	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4043	</listitem>
4044
4045	<listitem>
4046	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4055	host only</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4060	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4065	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4074	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4075	</listitem>
4076
4077	<listitem>
4078	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4079	</listitem>
4080
4081	<listitem>
4082	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4087	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4104	(bug #6714)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4125	</listitem>
4126
4127	</itemizedlist>
4128
4129	</sect1>
4130
4131	<sect1>
4132	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4133
4134	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4135	were added:</para>
4136
4137	<itemizedlist>
4138
4139	<listitem>
4140	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4141	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4142	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4151	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4156	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4157	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4162	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4163	</listitem>
4164
4165	<listitem>
4166	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4167	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4168	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4169	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4170	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4179	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4184	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4189	</listitem>
4190
4191	<listitem>
4192	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4205	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4206	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4211	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	</itemizedlist>
4215
4216	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4217
4218	<itemizedlist>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4222	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4231	VM</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4236	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4241	#1669)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4246	#6442)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4251	combination (bug #684)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4256	the VM from the GUI</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4261	medium is not accessible</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4270	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4275	#3106)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4280	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4281	it</para>
4282	</listitem>
4283
4284	<listitem>
4285	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4294	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4299	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4312	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4321	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4330	in VirtualBox</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4335	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4340	VirtualBox</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4345	</listitem>
4346
4347	<listitem>
4348	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4349	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	</itemizedlist>
4353	</sect1>
4354
4355	<sect1>
4356	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4357
4358	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4359	added:</para>
4360
4361	<itemizedlist>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4365	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4378	only) </para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4383	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4388	interface version</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4393	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4394	slot empty</para>
4395	</listitem>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4399	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4400	(bug #4220)</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4409	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4414	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4419	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4424	attached</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4429	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4438	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4443	is bug #6408)</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4452	fail to initialize</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4461	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4466	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4467	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4476	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4481	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4486	(bug #6435)</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4491	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4496	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4497	(bug #6488)</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4502	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4507	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4512	#5227)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4517	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4526	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	</itemizedlist>
4530	</sect1>
4531
4532	<sect1>
4533	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4534
4535	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4536	added:</para>
4537
4538	<itemizedlist>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4542	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4547	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4552	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4557	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4578	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4583	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4588	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4597	</listitem>
4598
4599	<listitem>
4600	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4601	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4606	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4607	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4612	(bug #5297)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4617	(bug #4962)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4622	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4627	(bug #6176)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4632	certain circumstances</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4637	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4650	(bug #3571)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4655	devices</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4660	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4661	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4666	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4675	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4680	response</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4701	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4714	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	</itemizedlist>
4734	</sect1>
4735
4736	<sect1>
4737	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4738
4739	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4740	added:</para>
4741
4742	<itemizedlist>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4754	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4759	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4764	(bug #3945)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4769	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4774	and AMD-V only) </para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	<listitem>
4782	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4783	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4784	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4789	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4794	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4799	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4804	snapshots command</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4813	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4830	(KWin bug)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4835	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4836	</listitem>
4837
4838	<listitem>
4839	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4856	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4861	bug #5787)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4866	DHCP requests</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4871	(bug #3217)</para>
4872	</listitem>
4873
4874	<listitem>
4875	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4876	range (bug #5923)</para>
4877	</listitem>
4878
4879	<listitem>
4880	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4881	</listitem>
4882
4883	<listitem>
4884	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4885	</listitem>
4886
4887	<listitem>
4888	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4897	file (bug #5681)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4902	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4907	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4912	regression)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4933	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4938	</listitem>
4939
4940	<listitem>
4941	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4942	</listitem>
4943
4944	<listitem>
4945	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4950	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4959	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4960	</listitem>
4961
4962	<listitem>
4963	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4976	(bug #5731)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4981	again</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	</itemizedlist>
4985
4986	</sect1>
4987
4988	<sect1>
4989	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4990
4991	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4992	added:</para>
4993
4994	<itemizedlist>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
5006	</listitem>
5007
5008	<listitem>
5009	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5010	</listitem>
5011
5012	<listitem>
5013	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5018	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5027	</listitem>
5028
5029	<listitem>
5030	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5043	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5048	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5053	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5054	#1762)</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5059	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5064	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5069	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5078	</listitem>
5079
5080	<listitem>
5081	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5082	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5083	</listitem>
5084
5085	<listitem>
5086	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5095	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5100	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5105	</listitem>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5109	guests</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5114	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5119	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5124	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5129	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5150	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	</itemizedlist>
5158
5159	</sect1>
5160
5161	<sect1>
5162	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5163
5164	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5165	were added:</para>
5166
5167	<itemizedlist>
5168
5169	<listitem>
5170	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5171	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5172	</listitem>
5173
5174	<listitem>
5175	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5176	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5177	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5182	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5183	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5188	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5189	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5194	running</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5199	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5204	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5209	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5214	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	</itemizedlist>
5218
5219	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5220
5221	<itemizedlist>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5237	(bug #5291)</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5254	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5259	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	<listitem>
5267	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5284	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5289	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5294	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5299	(bug #2723)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5308	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5313	optional manifest file on import</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5322	(bug #3773)</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5327	</listitem>
5328
5329	<listitem>
5330	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5335	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5340	(bug #4866)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5345	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5350	certain conditions</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5371	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5380	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5385	</listitem>
5386
5387	<listitem>
5388	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5401	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5406	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5407	(bug #928)</para>
5408	</listitem>
5409
5410	<listitem>
5411	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	</itemizedlist>
5415
5416	</sect1>
5417
5418	<sect1>
5419	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5420
5421	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5422	added:</para>
5423
5424	<itemizedlist>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5428	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5433	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5438	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5443	enabled</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5448	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5453	(bug #2676)</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5458	is connected to a raw file</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5463	(bug #5355)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5472	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5477	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5478	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5491	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5496	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5497	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	</itemizedlist>
5501
5502	</sect1>
5503
5504	<sect1>
5505	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5506
5507	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5508	added:</para>
5509
5510	<itemizedlist>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5522	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5523	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5524	</listitem>
5525
5526	<listitem>
5527	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5528	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5529	</listitem>
5530
5531	<listitem>
5532	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5537	</listitem>
5538
5539	<listitem>
5540	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5541	</listitem>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5553	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5566	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5575	exhaustion</para>
5576	</listitem>
5577
5578	<listitem>
5579	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5580	</listitem>
5581
5582	<listitem>
5583	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5584	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5589	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5594	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5599	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5600	(bug #2921)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5605	hosts only)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5610	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5619	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5628	image inconsistency </para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	<listitem>
5636	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5641	(bug #2025)</para>
5642	</listitem>
5643
5644	<listitem>
5645	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5646	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5647	</listitem>
5648
5649	</itemizedlist>
5650
5651	</sect1>
5652
5653	<sect1>
5654	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5655
5656	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5657	added:</para>
5658
5659	<itemizedlist>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5663	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5668	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5673	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5682	software virtualization only) </para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5687	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5692	with root privileges</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5697	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5702	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5707	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5712	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5713	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5718	available</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5723	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5728	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5733	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5738	(bug #4907)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5743	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5748	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5757	</listitem>
5758
5759	<listitem>
5760	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5769	are installed</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5774	(bug #4771)</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5783	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5788	command</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5793	</listitem>
5794
5795	<listitem>
5796	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5801	(bug #5089)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5806	</listitem>
5807
5808	</itemizedlist>
5809
5810	</sect1>
5811
5812	<sect1>
5813	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5814
5815	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5816	added:</para>
5817
5818	<itemizedlist>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5822	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5827	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5832	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5837	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5842	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5843	</listitem>
5844
5845	<listitem>
5846	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5847	</listitem>
5848
5849	<listitem>
5850	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5867	onlined or offlined</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5876	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5881	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5890	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5907	</listitem>
5908
5909	<listitem>
5910	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5911	</listitem>
5912
5913	<listitem>
5914	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5915	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5920	</listitem>
5921
5922	<listitem>
5923	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5932	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5937	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5946	</listitem>
5947
5948	<listitem>
5949	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5950	</listitem>
5951
5952	<listitem>
5953	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5954	</listitem>
5955
5956	<listitem>
5957	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5958	</listitem>
5959
5960	<listitem>
5961	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5962	</listitem>
5963
5964	<listitem>
5965	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5966	</listitem>
5967
5968	<listitem>
5969	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5970	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5971	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5972	phase collapse</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5977	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5982	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5991	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5992	</listitem>
5993
5994	<listitem>
5995	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5996	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
6005	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
6006	#4698, #4790)</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6011	less than the configured range</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6032	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6037	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6042	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6051	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6056	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6061	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6066	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	</itemizedlist>
6078
6079	</sect1>
6080
6081	<sect1>
6082	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6083
6084	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6085	added:</para>
6086
6087	<itemizedlist>
6088
6089	<listitem>
6090	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6091	</listitem>
6092
6093	<listitem>
6094	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6095	</listitem>
6096
6097	<listitem>
6098	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6115	</listitem>
6116
6117	<listitem>
6118	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6119	</listitem>
6120
6121	<listitem>
6122	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6123	</listitem>
6124
6125	<listitem>
6126	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6127	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6136	</listitem>
6137
6138	<listitem>
6139	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6140	</listitem>
6141
6142	<listitem>
6143	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6144	</listitem>
6145
6146	<listitem>
6147	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6148	</listitem>
6149
6150	<listitem>
6151	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6156	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6161	(bug #4654)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6170	interfaces</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6175	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6180	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6185	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6190	(bug #1461)</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6199	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6204	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6209	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6210	</listitem>
6211
6212	<listitem>
6213	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6214	</listitem>
6215
6216	<listitem>
6217	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	<listitem>
6221	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6222	</listitem>
6223
6224	<listitem>
6225	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6226	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6231	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6236	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6241	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	</itemizedlist>
6245
6246	</sect1>
6247	<sect1>
6248	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6249
6250	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6251	added:</para>
6252
6253	<itemizedlist>
6254
6255	<listitem>
6256	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6257	</listitem>
6258
6259	<listitem>
6260	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6265	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6270	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	<listitem>
6282	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6283	</listitem>
6284
6285	<listitem>
6286	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6287	</listitem>
6288
6289	<listitem>
6290	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6291	</listitem>
6292
6293	<listitem>
6294	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6295	</listitem>
6296
6297	<listitem>
6298	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6299	</listitem>
6300
6301	<listitem>
6302	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6303	</listitem>
6304
6305	<listitem>
6306	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6307	</listitem>
6308
6309	<listitem>
6310	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	<listitem>
6318	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6319	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6320	</listitem>
6321
6322	<listitem>
6323	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6324	</listitem>
6325
6326	<listitem>
6327	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6332	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6333	</listitem>
6334
6335	<listitem>
6336	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6345	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	<listitem>
6349	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6350	</listitem>
6351
6352	<listitem>
6353	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6354	</listitem>
6355
6356	<listitem>
6357	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6358	</listitem>
6359
6360	<listitem>
6361	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6362	</listitem>
6363
6364	<listitem>
6365	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6366	</listitem>
6367
6368	<listitem>
6369	<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>
6370	</listitem>
6371
6372	</itemizedlist>
6373
6374	</sect1>
6375
6376	<sect1>
6377	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6378
6379	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6380	were added:</para>
6381
6382	<itemizedlist>
6383
6384	<listitem>
6385	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6386	</listitem>
6387
6388	<listitem>
6389	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6390	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6391	</listitem>
6392
6393	<listitem>
6394	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6395	</listitem>
6396
6397	</itemizedlist>
6398
6399	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6400
6401	<itemizedlist>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	<listitem>
6408	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6409	certain conditions</para>
6410	</listitem>
6411
6412	<listitem>
6413	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6414	</listitem>
6415
6416	<listitem>
6417	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6418	</listitem>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6426	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6435	</listitem>
6436
6437	<listitem>
6438	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6439	</listitem>
6440
6441	<listitem>
6442	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6443	</listitem>
6444
6445	<listitem>
6446	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6447	</listitem>
6448
6449	<listitem>
6450	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6451	</listitem>
6452
6453	<listitem>
6454	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6455	</listitem>
6456
6457	<listitem>
6458	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6463	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6468	</listitem>
6469
6470	<listitem>
6471	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6472	</listitem>
6473
6474	<listitem>
6475	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6476	</listitem>
6477
6478	<listitem>
6479	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6480	</listitem>
6481
6482	<listitem>
6483	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6484	</listitem>
6485
6486	<listitem>
6487	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6488	</listitem>
6489
6490	<listitem>
6491	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6492	</listitem>
6493
6494	<listitem>
6495	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6496	</listitem>
6497
6498	<listitem>
6499	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6504	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6505	</listitem>
6506
6507	<listitem>
6508	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6513	</listitem>
6514
6515	<listitem>
6516	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6517	</listitem>
6518
6519	<listitem>
6520	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6521	</listitem>
6522
6523	<listitem>
6524	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6525	</listitem>
6526
6527	<listitem>
6528	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6529	</listitem>
6530
6531	<listitem>
6532	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6533	</listitem>
6534
6535	<listitem>
6536	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6537	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6542	</listitem>
6543
6544	<listitem>
6545	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6554	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6559	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6564	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6569	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6574	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6575	</listitem>
6576
6577	<listitem>
6578	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6583	</listitem>
6584
6585	<listitem>
6586	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6587	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6592	guest property lookup</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6597	basic network information)</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6602	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6607	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6608	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6609	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6610	</listitem>
6611
6612	<listitem>
6613	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6614	</listitem>
6615
6616	<listitem>
6617	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6618	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6619	web service</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6624	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6625	</listitem>
6626
6627	<listitem>
6628	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6629	unavailable</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6634	</listitem>
6635
6636	</itemizedlist>
6637	</sect1>
6638
6639	<sect1>
6640	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6641
6642	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6643	added:</para>
6644
6645	<itemizedlist>
6646
6647	<listitem>
6648	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6649	installation</para>
6650	</listitem>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6654	</listitem>
6655
6656	<listitem>
6657	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6658	later (bug #3981)</para>
6659	</listitem>
6660
6661	<listitem>
6662	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6663	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6664	</listitem>
6665
6666	<listitem>
6667	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6668	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6669	(bug #4034)
6670	</para>
6671	</listitem>
6672
6673	<listitem>
6674	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6675	networking</para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6680	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6685	clicks</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6690	Windows 7 guests</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6695	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6700	</listitem>
6701
6702	<listitem>
6703	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6708	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6713	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6718	</listitem>
6719
6720	<listitem>
6721	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6722	</listitem>
6723
6724	<listitem>
6725	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6726	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6727	(bug #3864)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6732	now flushes the output stream</para>
6733	</listitem>
6734
6735	<listitem>
6736	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6737	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6746	</listitem>
6747
6748	<listitem>
6749	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6750	</listitem>
6751
6752	<listitem>
6753	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6758	(bug #3964)</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6763	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6768	hosts</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6773	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6774	e1000 adapter</para>
6775	</listitem>
6776
6777	<listitem>
6778	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6779	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6780	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6781	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6782	</listitem>
6783
6784	<listitem>
6785	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6786	</listitem>
6787
6788	<listitem>
6789	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6790	</listitem>
6791
6792	<listitem>
6793	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6798	file (bug #1023)</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	</itemizedlist>
6810	</sect1>
6811
6812	<sect1>
6813	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6814
6815	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6816	added:</para>
6817
6818	<itemizedlist>
6819
6820	<listitem>
6821	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6822	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6823	</listitem>
6824
6825	<listitem>
6826	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6827	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6828	and later</para>
6829	</listitem>
6830
6831	<listitem>
6832	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6833	running services</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6838	terminates</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6843	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6848	installed on the guest</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6853	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6858	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6859	</listitem>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6863	(bug #2628)</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6868	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6873	(bug #3657)</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6878	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6883	virtualization only)
6884	</para>
6885	</listitem>
6886
6887	<listitem>
6888	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6889	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6890	</listitem>
6891
6892	<listitem>
6893	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6894	</listitem>
6895
6896	<listitem>
6897	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6898	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6903	bug #3689)</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6908	bug #3679)</para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6913	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6918	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6919	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6920	</listitem>
6921
6922	<listitem>
6923	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6924	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6929	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6934	(bug #3667)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6939	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6940	</listitem>
6941
6942	<listitem>
6943	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6944	</listitem>
6945
6946	<listitem>
6947	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6948	</listitem>
6949
6950	<listitem>
6951	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6952	</listitem>
6953
6954	<listitem>
6955	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6956	</listitem>
6957
6958	<listitem>
6959	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6964	</listitem>
6965
6966	<listitem>
6967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6968	</listitem>
6969
6970	</itemizedlist>
6971	</sect1>
6972
6973	<sect1>
6974	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6975
6976	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6977	were added:</para>
6978
6979	<itemizedlist>
6980
6981	<listitem>
6982	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6983	</listitem>
6984
6985	<listitem>
6986	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6987	</listitem>
6988
6989	<listitem>
6990	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6991	</listitem>
6992
6993	<listitem>
6994	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6995	</listitem>
6996
6997	<listitem>
6998	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6999	</listitem>
7000
7001	<listitem>
7002	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
7003	</listitem>
7004
7005	<listitem>
7006	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
7007	</listitem>
7008
7009	<listitem>
7010	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7019	</listitem>
7020
7021	</itemizedlist>
7022
7023	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7024
7025	<itemizedlist>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7029	</listitem>
7030
7031	<listitem>
7032	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7033	</listitem>
7034
7035	<listitem>
7036	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7037	</listitem>
7038
7039	<listitem>
7040	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7041	</listitem>
7042
7043	<listitem>
7044	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7045	</listitem>
7046
7047	<listitem>
7048	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7049	</listitem>
7050
7051	<listitem>
7052	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7053	</listitem>
7054
7055	<listitem>
7056	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7061	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7070	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7071	</listitem>
7072
7073	<listitem>
7074	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7075	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7080	</listitem>
7081
7082	<listitem>
7083	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7088	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7089	</listitem>
7090
7091	<listitem>
7092	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7097	ESX server images)</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7102	writable</para>
7103	</listitem>
7104
7105	<listitem>
7106	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7107	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7108	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7113	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7114	</listitem>
7115
7116	<listitem>
7117	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7118	</listitem>
7119
7120	<listitem>
7121	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7126	hosts when creating files</para>
7127	</listitem>
7128
7129	<listitem>
7130	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7131	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7132	</listitem>
7133
7134	<listitem>
7135	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7136	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7137	#2306)</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7142	(bug #3555)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7147	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7152	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7157	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7162	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7167	(bug #3586)</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7172	from Scratch systems</para>
7173	</listitem>
7174
7175	<listitem>
7176	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7177	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7182	</listitem>
7183
7184	<listitem>
7185	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7186	default to compact format</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7191	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7196	</listitem>
7197
7198	<listitem>
7199	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7200	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7201	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7202	</listitem>
7203
7204	<listitem>
7205	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7206	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7207	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7212	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7217	</listitem>
7218
7219	<listitem>
7220	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7221	</listitem>
7222
7223	<listitem>
7224	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7225	</listitem>
7226
7227	<listitem>
7228	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7229	</listitem>
7230
7231	<listitem>
7232	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7237	</listitem>
7238
7239	<listitem>
7240	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7241	</listitem>
7242
7243	<listitem>
7244	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7245	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7250	</listitem>
7251
7252	<listitem>
7253	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7254	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	<listitem>
7258	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7259	</listitem>
7260
7261	<listitem>
7262	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7263	</listitem>
7264
7265	<listitem>
7266	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7267	</listitem>
7268
7269	<listitem>
7270	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7271	#2536)</para>
7272	</listitem>
7273
7274	<listitem>
7275	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7276	</listitem>
7277
7278	<listitem>
7279	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7280	(bug #3548)</para>
7281	</listitem>
7282
7283	</itemizedlist>
7284	</sect1>
7285
7286	<sect1>
7287	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7288
7289	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7290	added:</para>
7291
7292	<itemizedlist>
7293
7294	<listitem>
7295	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7296	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7297	</listitem>
7298
7299	<listitem>
7300	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7301	</listitem>
7302
7303	<listitem>
7304	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7305	</listitem>
7306
7307	<listitem>
7308	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7309	</listitem>
7310
7311	<listitem>
7312	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7313	(bug #3115)</para>
7314	</listitem>
7315
7316	<listitem>
7317	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7318	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7319	</listitem>
7320
7321	<listitem>
7322	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7323	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7324	(bug #3215)</para>
7325	</listitem>
7326
7327	<listitem>
7328	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7329	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7334	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7339	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7344	in parallel</para>
7345	</listitem>
7346
7347	<listitem>
7348	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7349	</listitem>
7350
7351	<listitem>
7352	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7353	</listitem>
7354
7355	<listitem>
7356	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7357	</listitem>
7358
7359	<listitem>
7360	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7361	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7362	</listitem>
7363
7364	<listitem>
7365	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7370	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7371	</listitem>
7372
7373	<listitem>
7374	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7375	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7384	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7389	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	<listitem>
7393	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7394	</listitem>
7395
7396	<listitem>
7397	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7398	</listitem>
7399
7400	<listitem>
7401	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7402	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7403	</listitem>
7404
7405	<listitem>
7406	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7407	</listitem>
7408
7409	<listitem>
7410	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7411	</listitem>
7412
7413	<listitem>
7414	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7415	</listitem>
7416
7417	<listitem>
7418	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7419	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7428	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7429	</listitem>
7430
7431	<listitem>
7432	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7433	</listitem>
7434
7435	<listitem>
7436	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7441	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7446	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7455	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7456	</listitem>
7457
7458	<listitem>
7459	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7460	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7465	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7466	</listitem>
7467
7468	<listitem>
7469	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7470	(bug #3213)</para>
7471	</listitem>
7472
7473	<listitem>
7474	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7475	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	<listitem>
7479	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7480	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7481	</listitem>
7482
7483	</itemizedlist>
7484	</sect1>
7485
7486	<sect1>
7487	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7488
7489	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7490	added:</para>
7491
7492	<itemizedlist>
7493
7494	<listitem>
7495	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7496	</listitem>
7497
7498	<listitem>
7499	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7500	</listitem>
7501
7502	<listitem>
7503	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7504	</listitem>
7505
7506	<listitem>
7507	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7508	</listitem>
7509
7510	<listitem>
7511	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7512	</listitem>
7513
7514	<listitem>
7515	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7516	</listitem>
7517
7518	<listitem>
7519	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7520	</listitem>
7521
7522	<listitem>
7523	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7524	</listitem>
7525
7526	<listitem>
7527	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7528	</listitem>
7529
7530	<listitem>
7531	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7532	</listitem>
7533
7534	<listitem>
7535	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7536	</listitem>
7537
7538	<listitem>
7539	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7540	</listitem>
7541
7542	<listitem>
7543	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7544	</listitem>
7545
7546	<listitem>
7547	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7548	</listitem>
7549
7550	<listitem>
7551	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7552	</listitem>
7553
7554	<listitem>
7555	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7560	(bug #3067)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7565	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7570	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7571	</listitem>
7572
7573	<listitem>
7574	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7579	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7584	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7585	</listitem>
7586
7587	<listitem>
7588	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7589	</listitem>
7590
7591	<listitem>
7592	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7593	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7598	</listitem>
7599
7600	<listitem>
7601	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7602	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7603	</listitem>
7604
7605	<listitem>
7606	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7607	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	<listitem>
7611	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7612	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7613	</para>
7614	</listitem>
7615
7616	<listitem>
7617	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7618	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7619	</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7624	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7625	</para>
7626	</listitem>
7627
7628	<listitem>
7629	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7630	</listitem>
7631
7632	<listitem>
7633	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7634	</listitem>
7635
7636	<listitem>
7637	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7638	</listitem>
7639
7640	<listitem>
7641	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7646	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7651	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7656	formatting a drive</para>
7657	</listitem>
7658
7659	<listitem>
7660	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7661	</listitem>
7662
7663	<listitem>
7664	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7665	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7670	</listitem>
7671
7672	<listitem>
7673	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7674	</listitem>
7675
7676	<listitem>
7677	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7678	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7679	</listitem>
7680
7681	<listitem>
7682	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7683	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7684	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7685	</listitem>
7686
7687	<listitem>
7688	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7689	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7694	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7699	(bug #2768)</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	<listitem>
7707	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7712	single, unified package</para>
7713	</listitem>
7714
7715	<listitem>
7716	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7717	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7718	</listitem>
7719
7720	<listitem>
7721	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7722	</listitem>
7723
7724	<listitem>
7725	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7726	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7727	</listitem>
7728
7729	<listitem>
7730	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7731	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7732	</listitem>
7733
7734	<listitem>
7735	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7736	</listitem>
7737
7738	<listitem>
7739	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7740	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7741	doing 3D</para>
7742	</listitem>
7743
7744	<listitem>
7745	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7750	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7755	</listitem>
7756
7757	<listitem>
7758	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7759	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7760	</listitem>
7761
7762	<listitem>
7763	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7764	</listitem>
7765
7766	<listitem>
7767	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7768	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7769	</listitem>
7770
7771	<listitem>
7772	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7773	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7774	(bug #2938)</para>
7775	</listitem>
7776
7777	<listitem>
7778	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7779	Linux guests</para>
7780	</listitem>
7781
7782	<listitem>
7783	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7784	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7785	(bug #1776)</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7790	(bug #1612)</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7795	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7800	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7805	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	</itemizedlist>
7809	</sect1>
7810
7811	<sect1>
7812	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7813
7814	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7815	were added:</para>
7816
7817	<itemizedlist>
7818	<listitem>
7819	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7820	</listitem>
7821
7822	<listitem>
7823	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7824	</listitem>
7825
7826	<listitem>
7827	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7828	</listitem>
7829
7830	<listitem>
7831	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7832	</listitem>
7833
7834	<listitem>
7835	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7836	</listitem>
7837
7838	<listitem>
7839	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	<listitem>
7843	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7844	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7849	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	</itemizedlist>
7853
7854	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7855
7856	<itemizedlist>
7857	<listitem>
7858	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7859	</listitem>
7860
7861	<listitem>
7862	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7863	</listitem>
7864
7865	<listitem>
7866	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7867	</listitem>
7868
7869	<listitem>
7870	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7871	</listitem>
7872
7873	<listitem>
7874	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7875	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7880	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7885	</listitem>
7886
7887	<listitem>
7888	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7889	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7890	</listitem>
7891
7892	<listitem>
7893	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7894	</listitem>
7895
7896	<listitem>
7897	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7898	</listitem>
7899
7900	<listitem>
7901	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7902	</listitem>
7903
7904	<listitem>
7905	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7906	</listitem>
7907
7908	<listitem>
7909	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7914	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7915	</listitem>
7916
7917	<listitem>
7918	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7919	the compiz window manager</para>
7920	</listitem>
7921
7922	<listitem>
7923	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7924	</listitem>
7925
7926	<listitem>
7927	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7928	</listitem>
7929
7930	<listitem>
7931	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7936	</listitem>
7937
7938	<listitem>
7939	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7940	</listitem>
7941
7942	<listitem>
7943	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7944	</listitem>
7945
7946	<listitem>
7947	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7948	</listitem>
7949
7950	<listitem>
7951	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7952	</listitem>
7953
7954	<listitem>
7955	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7956	</listitem>
7957
7958	<listitem>
7959	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7960	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7961	</listitem>
7962
7963	<listitem>
7964	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7965	for direct device access</para>
7966	</listitem>
7967
7968	<listitem>
7969	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7970	</listitem>
7971
7972	<listitem>
7973	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7974	</listitem>
7975
7976	<listitem>
7977	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7978	</listitem>
7979
7980	<listitem>
7981	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7982	</listitem>
7983
7984	<listitem>
7985	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7986	</listitem>
7987
7988	<listitem>
7989	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7990	</listitem>
7991
7992	<listitem>
7993	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7994	</listitem>
7995
7996	<listitem>
7997	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7998	</listitem>
7999
8000	</itemizedlist>
8001	</sect1>
8002
8003	<sect1>
8004	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
8005
8006	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8007	added:</para>
8008
8009	<itemizedlist>
8010
8011	<listitem>
8012	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8013	states/snapshots</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8018	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8023	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8028	collisions</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8033	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8034	</listitem>
8035
8036	<listitem>
8037	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	<listitem>
8041	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8042	reliably</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8047	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8052	a reboot</para>
8053	</listitem>
8054
8055	<listitem>
8056	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8057	</listitem>
8058
8059	<listitem>
8060	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8061	in parallel</para>
8062	</listitem>
8063
8064	<listitem>
8065	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8066	</listitem>
8067
8068	<listitem>
8069	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8070	correctly</para>
8071	</listitem>
8072
8073	<listitem>
8074	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8075	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8076	</listitem>
8077
8078	</itemizedlist>
8079	</sect1>
8080
8081	<sect1>
8082	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8083
8084	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8085	added:</para>
8086
8087	<itemizedlist>
8088
8089	<listitem>
8090	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8091	(bug #2220)</para>
8092	</listitem>
8093
8094	<listitem>
8095	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8096	</listitem>
8097
8098	<listitem>
8099	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8104	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8109	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8114	(bug #2624)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8119	(bug #2024)</para>
8120	</listitem>
8121
8122	<listitem>
8123	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8124	</listitem>
8125
8126	<listitem>
8127	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8128	</listitem>
8129
8130	<listitem>
8131	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8136	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8141	applications when updating the installation</para>
8142	</listitem>
8143
8144	<listitem>
8145	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8146	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8147	</listitem>
8148
8149	<listitem>
8150	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8151	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8156	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8157	</listitem>
8158
8159	<listitem>
8160	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8161	connected to a host device</para>
8162	</listitem>
8163
8164	<listitem>
8165	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8166	</listitem>
8167
8168	<listitem>
8169	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8170	</listitem>
8171
8172	<listitem>
8173	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8174	</listitem>
8175
8176	<listitem>
8177	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8178	when using native RDP connections</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8183	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8188	(bug #2591)</para>
8189	</listitem>
8190
8191	<listitem>
8192	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8193	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8194	</listitem>
8195
8196	<listitem>
8197	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8198	</listitem>
8199
8200	</itemizedlist>
8201	</sect1>
8202
8203	<sect1>
8204	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8205
8206	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8207	added:</para>
8208
8209	<itemizedlist>
8210	<listitem>
8211	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8212	</listitem>
8213
8214	<listitem>
8215	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8216	</listitem>
8217
8218	<listitem>
8219	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8220	</listitem>
8221
8222	<listitem>
8223	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8224	</listitem>
8225
8226	<listitem>
8227	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8228	</listitem>
8229
8230	<listitem>
8231	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8236	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8241	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8242	</listitem>
8243
8244	<listitem>
8245	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8246	</listitem>
8247
8248	<listitem>
8249	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8250	equal to the client resolution</para>
8251	</listitem>
8252
8253	<listitem>
8254	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8255	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8256	</listitem>
8257
8258	<listitem>
8259	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8260	</listitem>
8261
8262	<listitem>
8263	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8264	</listitem>
8265
8266	<listitem>
8267	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8268	</listitem>
8269
8270	<listitem>
8271	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8272	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8277	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8278	</listitem>
8279
8280	<listitem>
8281	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8282	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8287	</listitem>
8288
8289	<listitem>
8290	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8291	</listitem>
8292
8293	<listitem>
8294	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8295	</listitem>
8296
8297	<listitem>
8298	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8299	</listitem>
8300
8301	<listitem>
8302	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8303	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8308	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8309	</listitem>
8310
8311	<listitem>
8312	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8313	</listitem>
8314
8315	<listitem>
8316	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8317	</listitem>
8318
8319	<listitem>
8320	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8321	</listitem>
8322
8323	</itemizedlist>
8324
8325	</sect1>
8326
8327	<sect1>
8328	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8329
8330	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8331	added:</para>
8332
8333	<itemizedlist>
8334
8335	<listitem>
8336	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8337	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8338	</listitem>
8339
8340	<listitem>
8341	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8342	</listitem>
8343
8344	<listitem>
8345	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8346	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8347	</listitem>
8348
8349	<listitem>
8350	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8351	</listitem>
8352
8353	<listitem>
8354	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8355	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8356	</listitem>
8357
8358	<listitem>
8359	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8360	</listitem>
8361
8362	<listitem>
8363	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8364	the virtual disk manager</para>
8365	</listitem>
8366
8367	<listitem>
8368	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8369	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8370	</listitem>
8371
8372	<listitem>
8373	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8374	</listitem>
8375
8376	<listitem>
8377	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8378	</listitem>
8379
8380	<listitem>
8381	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8382	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8383	</listitem>
8384
8385	<listitem>
8386	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8387	bug #2067)</para>
8388	</listitem>
8389
8390	<listitem>
8391	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8392	</listitem>
8393
8394	<listitem>
8395	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8396	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8397	</listitem>
8398
8399	<listitem>
8400	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8401	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8402	(bug #2184)</para>
8403	</listitem>
8404
8405	<listitem>
8406	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8407	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8408	</listitem>
8409
8410	<listitem>
8411	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8412	(Windows guests only)</para>
8413	</listitem>
8414
8415	<listitem>
8416	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8417	</listitem>
8418
8419	<listitem>
8420	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8421	</listitem>
8422
8423	<listitem>
8424	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8425	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8426	</listitem>
8427
8428	<listitem>
8429	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8430	</listitem>
8431
8432	<listitem>
8433	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8434	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8435	</para>
8436	</listitem>
8437
8438	<listitem>
8439	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8440	</listitem>
8441
8442	<listitem>
8443	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8444	</listitem>
8445
8446	<listitem>
8447	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8448	a VM reboot</para>
8449	</listitem>
8450
8451	<listitem>
8452	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8457	buggy X servers</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8462	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8467	</listitem>
8468
8469	<listitem>
8470	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8471	(bug #2128)</para>
8472	</listitem>
8473
8474	<listitem>
8475	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8476	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8481	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8486	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8487	</listitem>
8488
8489	<listitem>
8490	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8491	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8496	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8497	</listitem>
8498
8499	<listitem>
8500	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8501	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8502	</listitem>
8503
8504	<listitem>
8505	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8506	installer into a single package</para>
8507	</listitem>
8508
8509	<listitem>
8510	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8511	port to the guest
8512	</para>
8513	</listitem>
8514
8515	</itemizedlist>
8516
8517	</sect1>
8518
8519	<sect1>
8520	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8521
8522	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8523	were added:<itemizedlist>
8524
8525	<listitem>
8526	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8527	</listitem>
8528
8529	<listitem>
8530	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8531	</listitem>
8532
8533	<listitem>
8534	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8535	</listitem>
8536
8537	<listitem>
8538	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8539	</listitem>
8540
8541	<listitem>
8542	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8543	</listitem>
8544
8545	<listitem>
8546	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8547	</listitem>
8548
8549	<listitem>
8550	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8551	</listitem>
8552
8553	<listitem>
8554	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8555	</listitem>
8556
8557	<listitem>
8558	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8559	</listitem>
8560
8561	<listitem>
8562	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8563	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8564	</listitem>
8565
8566	<listitem>
8567	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8568	</listitem>
8569
8570	<listitem>
8571	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8572	</listitem>
8573
8574	<listitem>
8575	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	</itemizedlist></para>
8579
8580	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8581
8582	<itemizedlist>
8583
8584	<listitem>
8585	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8586	</listitem>
8587
8588	<listitem>
8589	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8590	</listitem>
8591
8592	<listitem>
8593	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8594	</listitem>
8595
8596	<listitem>
8597	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8598	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8599	</listitem>
8600
8601	<listitem>
8602	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8603	restored</para>
8604	</listitem>
8605
8606	<listitem>
8607	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8608	</listitem>
8609
8610	<listitem>
8611	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8612	</listitem>
8613
8614	<listitem>
8615	<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>
8616	</listitem>
8617
8618	</itemizedlist>
8619
8620	</sect1>
8621

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