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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>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>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
33	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
38	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
43	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
44	option to show really all available details</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
49	the automatic Guest Additions update.</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
58	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
59	</listitem>
60
61	<listitem>
62	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
63	by François Revol</para>
64	</listitem>
65
66	<listitem>
67	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
72	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	</itemizedlist>
76
77	</sect1>
78
79	<sect1>
80
81	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
82
83	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
84	were added:</para>
85
86	<itemizedlist>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
106	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
111	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
116	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
121	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
122	planned. (bug #81)</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
127	</listitem>
128
129	<listitem>
130	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
131	documentation for more information</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	</itemizedlist>
135
136	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
137
138	<itemizedlist>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
142	on Mountain Lion</para>
143	</listitem>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
147	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
148	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
153	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
158	nested paging</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
163	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
168	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
173	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
186	</listitem>
187
188	<listitem>
189	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
210	guests</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
215	used ISO images</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
220	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
225	(bug #9973)</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
230	(bug #9864)</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
235	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
236	immediately</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
241	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
246	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
247	any time using the VM menu</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
260	</listitem>
261
262	<listitem>
263	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
280	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	<listitem>
288	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
289	support for v2 images)</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
298	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
311	VirtualBox update</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
316	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	</itemizedlist>
324	</sect1>
325
326	<sect1>
327	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
328
329	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
330	added:</para>
331
332	<itemizedlist>
333
334	<listitem>
335	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
336	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
337	and others)</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
342	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
347	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
352	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
357	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
362	(bug #10631)</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
367	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
368	(bug #10624)</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
377	updated (bug #9887)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	</itemizedlist>
385	</sect1>
386
387	<sect1>
388	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
389
390	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
391	added:</para>
392
393	<itemizedlist>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
397	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
402	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
407	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
408	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
409	</listitem>
410
411	<listitem>
412	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
413	guests in rare cases</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
422	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
427	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
428	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
429	</listitem>
430
431	<listitem>
432	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
441	reason (bug #6189)</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
450	paused</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
455	(bug #10267)</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
464	(bug #10418)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
469	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
470	(bug #10581)</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
475	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
476	</listitem>
477
478	<listitem>
479	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
480	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
481	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	</itemizedlist>
489
490	</sect1>
491
492	<sect1>
493	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
494
495	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
496	added:</para>
497
498	<itemizedlist>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
502	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
503	(bug #3783)</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
512	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
517	</listitem>
518
519	</itemizedlist>
520
521	</sect1>
522
523	<sect1>
524	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
525
526	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
527	added:</para>
528
529	<itemizedlist>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
533	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
534	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
539	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
544	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
557	4.1.10 regression)</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
566	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
575	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
580	4.1.10 regression)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
585	closed (bug #6473)</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
590	properly installed</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	</itemizedlist>
598	</sect1>
599
600	<sect1>
601	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
602
603	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
604	added:</para>
605
606	<itemizedlist>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
610	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
615	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
620	fusion</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
625	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
630	and network mask attributes</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
635	(bug #10030)</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
640	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
653	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
662	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
667	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
672	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
701	in a zone</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
710	(bug #9651)</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
719	#10010)</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
724	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
729	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
738	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
743	(bug #10151)</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
748	guests</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	</itemizedlist>
764	</sect1>
765
766	<sect1>
767	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
768
769	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
770	added:</para>
771
772	<itemizedlist>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
776	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
785	(bug #9642)</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
790	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
791	</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
800	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
805	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
822	circumstances</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	<listitem>
830	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
831	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
836	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
837	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
838	and for 3D support in general</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
855	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	</itemizedlist>
859	</sect1>
860
861	<sect1>
862	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
863
864	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
865	added:</para>
866
867	<itemizedlist>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
875	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
880	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
885	certain guests</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
894	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
895	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
900	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
909	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
918	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
923	guests</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
928	folders</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
933	shared folders</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
938	users and stale sessions</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
943	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	</itemizedlist>
947	</sect1>
948
949	<sect1>
950	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
951
952	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
953	added:</para>
954
955	<itemizedlist>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
959	bug #9458)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
964	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
969	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
978	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
983	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
988	(bug #9308)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
993	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
998	(bug #9503)</para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
1003	(bug #9242)</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
1008	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
1009	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1018	images</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1023	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1028	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1033	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1038	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1043	#9387)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1048	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1053	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1058	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1063	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1076	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1081	(bug #1578)</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1086	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1091	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1096	(bug #9535)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1101	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1106	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1111	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1116	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1121	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1126	</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1131	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1132	</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	<listitem>
1136	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1137	(bug #6229)
1138	</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1143	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1148	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1153	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1158	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1163	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1168	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1173	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1178	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	</itemizedlist>
1182	</sect1>
1183
1184	<sect1>
1185	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1186
1187	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1188	added:</para>
1189
1190	<itemizedlist>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1198	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1207	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1212	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1217	a live snapshot</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1222	due to a library version conflict</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1227	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1232	at a time by default</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1237	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1238	#9368)</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1243	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1248	VMs</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1253	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1254	</listitem>
1255
1256	<listitem>
1257	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1258	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1259	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1264	(bug #9308)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1269	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1278	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1283	(bug #9242)</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1288	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1293	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1298	USB devices</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1303	and warn about it</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1316	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1321	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1326	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1331	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1336	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1341	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1346	2.6.37 and above</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	</itemizedlist>
1350	</sect1>
1351
1352	<sect1>
1353	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1354
1355	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1356	were added:</para>
1357
1358	<itemizedlist>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1362	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1363	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1376	bug #7822)</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	<listitem>
1384	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1385	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1390	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1391	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1392	anymore)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1397	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1402	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1403	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1404	</listitem>
1405
1406	<listitem>
1407	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1408	</para>
1409	</listitem>
1410
1411	<listitem>
1412	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1413	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1414	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1419	with VBoxManage</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1424	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427
1428	</itemizedlist>
1429
1430	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1431
1432	<itemizedlist>
1433
1434	<listitem>
1435	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1448	of the current state</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1457	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1462	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1463	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1468	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1481	dialog</para>
1482	</listitem>
1483
1484	<listitem>
1485	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1486	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1487	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1492	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1497	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1502	be a valid UUID</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1507	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1512	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1513	cases</para>
1514	</listitem>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1518	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1519	improve performance</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1524	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1525	on a temporary basis</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1530	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1531	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1536	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1541	images in VDI format</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1546	VMDK format</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1551	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	<listitem>
1555	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1556	</listitem>
1557
1558	<listitem>
1559	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1576	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1581	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1586	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1591	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1596	RDP clients</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1605	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1610	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1615	simultaneously</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1620	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1621	location values in many places</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1630	builds</para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1639	window (bug #4491)</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1644	removing a VM</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1649	</listitem>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1657	166 and above)</para>
1658	</listitem>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1662	hosts</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1671	from the host</para>
1672	</listitem>
1673
1674	<listitem>
1675	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	</itemizedlist>
1679
1680	</sect1>
1681
1682	<sect1>
1683	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1684
1685	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1686	added:</para>
1687
1688	<itemizedlist>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1696	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1701	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1706	a live snapshot</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1711	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1724	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1729	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1734	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1743	images</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1748	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1752	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1757	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	<listitem>
1761	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1766	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1771	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1780	(bug #9370)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1785	(bug #9535)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1790	(bug #1578)</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1795	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1800	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1801	</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1806	</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1811	2.6.37 and above</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1816	(bug #6229)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1821	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	</itemizedlist>
1825	</sect1>
1826
1827	<sect1>
1828	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1829
1830	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1831	added:</para>
1832
1833	<itemizedlist>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1841	166 and above)</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1846	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1847	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1848	</listitem>
1849
1850	<listitem>
1851	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1852	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1857	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1866	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1871	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1876	builds</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	</itemizedlist>
1884	</sect1>
1885	<sect1>
1886	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1887
1888	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1889	added:</para>
1890
1891	<itemizedlist>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1903	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1908	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1917	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1918	</listitem>
1919
1920	<listitem>
1921	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1926	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1931	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1944	file was not written during export</para>
1945	</listitem>
1946
1947	<listitem>
1948	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1949	</listitem>
1950
1951	<listitem>
1952	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1961	binaries</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1970	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1975	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1984	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	</itemizedlist>
1988	</sect1>
1989
1990	<sect1>
1991	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1992
1993	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1994	added:</para>
1995
1996	<itemizedlist>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
2000	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
2005	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
2010	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2015	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2020	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2025	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2030	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2035	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2048	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2053	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2066	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2071	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2076	window</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2081	Fedora 15</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2086	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2091	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2096	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	<listitem>
2104	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2105	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	</itemizedlist>
2109	</sect1>
2110
2111	<sect1>
2112	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2113
2114	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2115	added:</para>
2116
2117	<itemizedlist>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2121	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2126	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2131	(bug #8006)</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2136	(bug #8726)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2149	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2154	(bug #8469)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2159	selectors</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2164	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2169	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2174	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2183	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2196	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2201	I/O error occurred</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2206	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2211	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2216	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2217	if no medium is present</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2226	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2231	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2236	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2237	</listitem>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2245	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2250	library (bug #8063)</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2255	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2256	</listitem>
2257
2258	<listitem>
2259	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2272	changed on import</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2281	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2286	(bug #8593)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2291	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2296	captured</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2301	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2306	</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2311	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2316	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2321	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2322	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2327	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2336	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2341	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2346	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2351	</listitem>
2352
2353	<listitem>
2354	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2367	(bug #7946)</para>
2368	</listitem>
2369
2370	<listitem>
2371	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	<listitem>
2375	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2376	</listitem>
2377
2378	<listitem>
2379	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	</itemizedlist>
2383
2384	</sect1>
2385
2386	<sect1>
2387	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2388
2389	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2390	added:</para>
2391
2392	<itemizedlist>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2396	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2401	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2406	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2411	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2416	number of host network interfaces</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2421	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2430	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2435	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2440	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2449	(bug #6577)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2454	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2455	(bug #8235)</para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2460	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2461	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2470	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2479	(bug #7966)</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2496	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2509	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2514	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2523	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2524	</listitem>
2525
2526	<listitem>
2527	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2528	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2529	(bug #8122)</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2534	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2543	</listitem>
2544
2545	<listitem>
2546	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2547	(bug #1548)</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2556	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2565	(bug #8231)</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2570	11.04 Alpha</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2575	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2580	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2585	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2590	with VBoxGINA</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	</itemizedlist>
2594
2595	</sect1>
2596
2597	<sect1>
2598	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2599
2600	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2601	added:</para>
2602
2603	<itemizedlist>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2607	settings vanished</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2612	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2617	created (bug #8031)</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2626	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2631	an extension pack</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2636	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2645	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2650	host-only interface</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2655	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2660	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2665	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2670	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2675	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2684	</listitem>
2685
2686	<listitem>
2687	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2688	guests</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2701	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2706	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2711	a VM start</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2716	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2721	(bug #6067)</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2726	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2731	not saved to machine XML</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2736	#7983)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2741	#7981)</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2750	regression)</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2755	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2760	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	</itemizedlist>
2764
2765	</sect1>
2766
2767	<sect1>
2768	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2769
2770	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2771	were added:</para>
2772
2773	<itemizedlist>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2785	<itemizedlist>
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2804	states, and optionally including attached
2805	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2806	can do the same now)</para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2811	</listitem>
2812
2813	</itemizedlist>
2814	</para>
2815	</listitem>
2816
2817	<listitem>
2818	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>New virtual hardware:
2823	<itemizedlist>
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2826	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2831	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833	</itemizedlist>
2834	</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2839	<itemizedlist>
2840	<listitem>
2841	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2846	</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2851	now</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	</itemizedlist>
2859	</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2864	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2869	Parallels images</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2878	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2883	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	</itemizedlist>
2887
2888	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2889
2890	<itemizedlist>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2894	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2903	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2908	(bug #1657)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2921	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2926	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2931	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2932	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2937	again (bug #6864)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2942	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2947	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2980	(bug #7058)</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2985	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2986	</listitem>
2987
2988	<listitem>
2989	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2990	circumstances</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2995	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2996	#5578)
2997	</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
3006	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3015	#6760)</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3020	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3025	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3030	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3039	file</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3044	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	</itemizedlist>
3048
3049	</sect1>
3050
3051	<sect1>
3052	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3053
3054	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3055	added:</para>
3056
3057	<itemizedlist>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3061	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3066	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3067	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3072	</listitem>
3073
3074	<listitem>
3075	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3076	</listitem>
3077
3078	<listitem>
3079	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3084	the VM is running</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3089	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3090	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3091	starting from a saved state</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3096	</listitem>
3097
3098	<listitem>
3099	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3116	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3121	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3126	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3135	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3136	</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3141	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3142	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3147	only)</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3152	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3169	state (bug #4124)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3174	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3183	(bug #2996)</para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3188	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3189	</listitem>
3190
3191	<listitem>
3192	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3197	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3202	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3203	</listitem>
3204
3205	<listitem>
3206	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3207	user accounts for VM information</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	</itemizedlist>
3211
3212	</sect1>
3213
3214	<sect1>
3215	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3216
3217	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3218	added:</para>
3219
3220	<itemizedlist>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3224	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3241	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3246	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3251	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3256	(bug #4952)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3261	bug #6122)</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3266	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3271	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3272	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3281	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3286	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3291	canceled</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3296	</listitem>
3297
3298	<listitem>
3299	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3300	</listitem>
3301
3302	<listitem>
3303	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	<listitem>
3307	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3312	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3321	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3326	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3335	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3344	circumstances</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3349	printers</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3358	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3363	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3368	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3369	circumstances</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3374	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3379	as supported extension</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3384	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3389	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3398	(bug #7366)</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3407	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3412	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3417	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3422	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3427	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3440	more than one environment variable</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3445	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3450	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3455	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3456	</listitem>
3457
3458	<listitem>
3459	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3460	enumerating logged in users</para>
3461	</listitem>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3465	</listitem>
3466
3467	<listitem>
3468	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3477	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3486	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3491	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3496	(bug #7448)</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	</itemizedlist>
3512
3513	</sect1>
3514
3515	<sect1>
3516	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3517
3518	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3519	added:</para>
3520
3521	<itemizedlist>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3525	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3534	bug #6809)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3539	</listitem>
3540
3541	<listitem>
3542	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3547	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3552	changes</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	<listitem>
3556	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3561	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3566	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3571	</listitem>
3572
3573	<listitem>
3574	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3587	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3596	(bug #6832)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3601	guests</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3610	without external tools and tricks</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3615	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3624	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3629	shutdown</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3634	fixes</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3639	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3640	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3641	</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3646	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3651	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3656	</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	</itemizedlist>
3672
3673	</sect1>
3674
3675	<sect1>
3676	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3677
3678	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3679	added:</para>
3680
3681	<itemizedlist>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3685	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3690	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3691	</listitem>
3692
3693	<listitem>
3694	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3695	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	<listitem>
3703	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3716	assigned</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3721	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3726	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3735	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3740	again (bug #7022).
3741	</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3746	(bug #6768)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3751	(bug #6927)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3756	bug #7031)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3761	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3766	bug #6987)</para>
3767	</listitem>
3768
3769	<listitem>
3770	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3779	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3788	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3797	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3798	bug #6872)</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3807	(performance tweak)</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3812	is currently paused</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3817	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3826	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	<listitem>
3830	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3831	not properly saved</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3836	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3853	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3862	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3867	(bug #5251)</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3872	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3881	</listitem>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3885	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	</itemizedlist>
3901	</sect1>
3902
3903	<sect1>
3904	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3905
3906	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3907	added:</para>
3908
3909	<itemizedlist>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3913	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3914	</listitem>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3922	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3927	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3936	again (bug #6864)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3941	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3942	</listitem>
3943
3944	<listitem>
3945	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3950	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3955	</listitem>
3956
3957	</itemizedlist>
3958
3959	</sect1>
3960
3961	<sect1>
3962	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3963
3964	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3965	added:</para>
3966
3967	<itemizedlist>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3971	</listitem>
3972
3973	<listitem>
3974	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3975	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3984	state</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3993	</listitem>
3994
3995	<listitem>
3996	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4029	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4034	(bug #6784)</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4039	</listitem>
4040
4041	<listitem>
4042	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4043	</listitem>
4044
4045	<listitem>
4046	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4047	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4060	host only</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4065	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4070	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4075	</listitem>
4076
4077	<listitem>
4078	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4079	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4084	</listitem>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4092	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4109	(bug #6714)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4114	</listitem>
4115
4116	<listitem>
4117	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	</itemizedlist>
4133
4134	</sect1>
4135
4136	<sect1>
4137	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4138
4139	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4140	were added:</para>
4141
4142	<itemizedlist>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4146	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4147	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4156	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4161	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4162	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4163	</listitem>
4164
4165	<listitem>
4166	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4167	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4172	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4173	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4174	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4175	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	<listitem>
4179	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4184	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4189	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	<listitem>
4193	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4210	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4211	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4216	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	</itemizedlist>
4220
4221	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4222
4223	<itemizedlist>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4227	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4236	VM</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4241	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4246	#1669)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4251	#6442)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4256	combination (bug #684)</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4261	the VM from the GUI</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4266	medium is not accessible</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4275	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4280	#3106)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4285	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4286	it</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4291	</listitem>
4292
4293	<listitem>
4294	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4299	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4304	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4317	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4326	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4335	in VirtualBox</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4340	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4345	VirtualBox</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4354	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	</itemizedlist>
4358	</sect1>
4359
4360	<sect1>
4361	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4362
4363	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4364	added:</para>
4365
4366	<itemizedlist>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4370	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4383	only) </para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4388	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4393	interface version</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4398	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4399	slot empty</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4404	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4405	(bug #4220)</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4414	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4419	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4424	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4429	attached</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4434	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4435	</listitem>
4436
4437	<listitem>
4438	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4443	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4448	is bug #6408)</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4457	fail to initialize</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4466	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4471	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4472	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4481	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4486	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4491	(bug #6435)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4496	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4501	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4502	(bug #6488)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4507	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4512	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4517	#5227)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4522	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4531	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	</itemizedlist>
4535	</sect1>
4536
4537	<sect1>
4538	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4539
4540	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4541	added:</para>
4542
4543	<itemizedlist>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4547	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4552	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4557	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4562	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4583	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4588	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4593	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4606	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4611	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4612	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4617	(bug #5297)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4622	(bug #4962)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4627	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4632	(bug #6176)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4637	certain circumstances</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4642	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4655	(bug #3571)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4660	devices</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4665	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4666	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4671	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4680	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4685	response</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4690	</listitem>
4691
4692	<listitem>
4693	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4706	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4719	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	</itemizedlist>
4739	</sect1>
4740
4741	<sect1>
4742	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4743
4744	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4745	added:</para>
4746
4747	<itemizedlist>
4748
4749	<listitem>
4750	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4759	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4764	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4769	(bug #3945)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4774	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4779	and AMD-V only) </para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4788	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4789	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4794	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4799	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4804	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4809	snapshots command</para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4818	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4835	(KWin bug)</para>
4836	</listitem>
4837
4838	<listitem>
4839	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4840	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4841	</listitem>
4842
4843	<listitem>
4844	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4845	</listitem>
4846
4847	<listitem>
4848	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4861	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4866	bug #5787)</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4871	DHCP requests</para>
4872	</listitem>
4873
4874	<listitem>
4875	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4876	(bug #3217)</para>
4877	</listitem>
4878
4879	<listitem>
4880	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4881	range (bug #5923)</para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4886	</listitem>
4887
4888	<listitem>
4889	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4890	</listitem>
4891
4892	<listitem>
4893	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4902	file (bug #5681)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4907	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4912	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4917	regression)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4938	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4947	</listitem>
4948
4949	<listitem>
4950	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4955	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4956	</listitem>
4957
4958	<listitem>
4959	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4960	</listitem>
4961
4962	<listitem>
4963	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4964	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4965	</listitem>
4966
4967	<listitem>
4968	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4973	</listitem>
4974
4975	<listitem>
4976	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4981	(bug #5731)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4986	again</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	</itemizedlist>
4990
4991	</sect1>
4992
4993	<sect1>
4994	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4995
4996	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4997	added:</para>
4998
4999	<itemizedlist>
5000
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5015	</listitem>
5016
5017	<listitem>
5018	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5023	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5048	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5053	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5058	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5059	#1762)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5064	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5069	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5074	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5083	</listitem>
5084
5085	<listitem>
5086	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5087	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5088	</listitem>
5089
5090	<listitem>
5091	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5100	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5105	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5114	guests</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5119	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5124	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5129	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5134	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	<listitem>
5138	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5139	</listitem>
5140
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5143	</listitem>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5155	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	</itemizedlist>
5163
5164	</sect1>
5165
5166	<sect1>
5167	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5168
5169	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5170	were added:</para>
5171
5172	<itemizedlist>
5173
5174	<listitem>
5175	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5176	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5181	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5182	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5183	</listitem>
5184
5185	<listitem>
5186	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5187	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5188	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5193	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5194	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5199	running</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5204	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5209	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5214	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5219	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	</itemizedlist>
5223
5224	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5225
5226	<itemizedlist>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5242	(bug #5291)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5259	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5264	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5269	</listitem>
5270
5271	<listitem>
5272	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5289	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5294	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5299	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5304	(bug #2723)</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5313	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5318	optional manifest file on import</para>
5319	</listitem>
5320
5321	<listitem>
5322	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5327	(bug #3773)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5340	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5345	(bug #4866)</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5350	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5355	certain conditions</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5376	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5385	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5390	</listitem>
5391
5392	<listitem>
5393	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5406	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5411	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5412	(bug #928)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	</itemizedlist>
5420
5421	</sect1>
5422
5423	<sect1>
5424	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5425
5426	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5427	added:</para>
5428
5429	<itemizedlist>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5433	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5438	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5443	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5448	enabled</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5453	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5458	(bug #2676)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5463	is connected to a raw file</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5468	(bug #5355)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5477	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5482	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5483	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5496	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5497	</listitem>
5498
5499	<listitem>
5500	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5501	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5502	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	</itemizedlist>
5506
5507	</sect1>
5508
5509	<sect1>
5510	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5511
5512	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5513	added:</para>
5514
5515	<itemizedlist>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5527	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5528	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5529	</listitem>
5530
5531	<listitem>
5532	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5533	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5558	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5559	</listitem>
5560
5561	<listitem>
5562	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5563	</listitem>
5564
5565	<listitem>
5566	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5571	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5576	</listitem>
5577
5578	<listitem>
5579	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5580	exhaustion</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5589	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5594	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5599	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5604	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5605	(bug #2921)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5610	hosts only)</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5615	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5616	</listitem>
5617
5618	<listitem>
5619	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5624	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5633	image inconsistency </para>
5634	</listitem>
5635
5636	<listitem>
5637	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5638	</listitem>
5639
5640	<listitem>
5641	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5642	</listitem>
5643
5644	<listitem>
5645	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5646	(bug #2025)</para>
5647	</listitem>
5648
5649	<listitem>
5650	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5651	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5652	</listitem>
5653
5654	</itemizedlist>
5655
5656	</sect1>
5657
5658	<sect1>
5659	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5660
5661	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5662	added:</para>
5663
5664	<itemizedlist>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5668	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5673	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5678	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5687	software virtualization only) </para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5692	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5697	with root privileges</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5702	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5707	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5712	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5717	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5718	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5723	available</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5728	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5733	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5738	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5743	(bug #4907)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5748	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5753	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5762	</listitem>
5763
5764	<listitem>
5765	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5774	are installed</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5779	(bug #4771)</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5788	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5793	command</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5806	(bug #5089)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	</itemizedlist>
5814
5815	</sect1>
5816
5817	<sect1>
5818	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5819
5820	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5821	added:</para>
5822
5823	<itemizedlist>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5827	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5832	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5837	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5842	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5843	</listitem>
5844
5845	<listitem>
5846	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5847	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5852	</listitem>
5853
5854	<listitem>
5855	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5856	</listitem>
5857
5858	<listitem>
5859	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5872	onlined or offlined</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5881	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5886	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5895	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5920	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5937	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5942	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5975	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5976	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5977	phase collapse</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5982	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5987	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5992	</listitem>
5993
5994	<listitem>
5995	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5996	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
6001	interface bringup on Linux</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
6010	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
6011	#4698, #4790)</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6016	less than the configured range</para>
6017	</listitem>
6018
6019	<listitem>
6020	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6021	</listitem>
6022
6023	<listitem>
6024	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6025	</listitem>
6026
6027	<listitem>
6028	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6029	</listitem>
6030
6031	<listitem>
6032	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6037	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6042	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6047	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6056	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6061	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6066	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6071	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6076	</listitem>
6077
6078	<listitem>
6079	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	</itemizedlist>
6083
6084	</sect1>
6085
6086	<sect1>
6087	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6088
6089	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6090	added:</para>
6091
6092	<itemizedlist>
6093
6094	<listitem>
6095	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6096	</listitem>
6097
6098	<listitem>
6099	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6100	</listitem>
6101
6102	<listitem>
6103	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6104	</listitem>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6124	</listitem>
6125
6126	<listitem>
6127	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6132	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6133	</listitem>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6141	</listitem>
6142
6143	<listitem>
6144	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6145	</listitem>
6146
6147	<listitem>
6148	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6149	</listitem>
6150
6151	<listitem>
6152	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6153	</listitem>
6154
6155	<listitem>
6156	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6161	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6166	(bug #4654)</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6175	interfaces</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6180	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6185	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6190	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6195	(bug #1461)</para>
6196	</listitem>
6197
6198	<listitem>
6199	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6204	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6209	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6210	</listitem>
6211
6212	<listitem>
6213	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6214	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6231	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6236	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6241	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6246	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	</itemizedlist>
6250
6251	</sect1>
6252	<sect1>
6253	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6254
6255	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6256	added:</para>
6257
6258	<itemizedlist>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6262	</listitem>
6263
6264	<listitem>
6265	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6270	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6275	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6276	</listitem>
6277
6278	<listitem>
6279	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6280	</listitem>
6281
6282	<listitem>
6283	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6284	</listitem>
6285
6286	<listitem>
6287	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6288	</listitem>
6289
6290	<listitem>
6291	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6292	</listitem>
6293
6294	<listitem>
6295	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6296	</listitem>
6297
6298	<listitem>
6299	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6300	</listitem>
6301
6302	<listitem>
6303	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	<listitem>
6307	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6308	</listitem>
6309
6310	<listitem>
6311	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6312	</listitem>
6313
6314	<listitem>
6315	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6320	</listitem>
6321
6322	<listitem>
6323	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6324	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6325	</listitem>
6326
6327	<listitem>
6328	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6329	</listitem>
6330
6331	<listitem>
6332	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6333	</listitem>
6334
6335	<listitem>
6336	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6337	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6338	</listitem>
6339
6340	<listitem>
6341	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6342	</listitem>
6343
6344	<listitem>
6345	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	<listitem>
6349	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6350	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6355	</listitem>
6356
6357	<listitem>
6358	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6359	</listitem>
6360
6361	<listitem>
6362	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6363	</listitem>
6364
6365	<listitem>
6366	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6367	</listitem>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<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>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	</itemizedlist>
6378
6379	</sect1>
6380
6381	<sect1>
6382	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6383
6384	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6385	were added:</para>
6386
6387	<itemizedlist>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6391	</listitem>
6392
6393	<listitem>
6394	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6395	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6396	</listitem>
6397
6398	<listitem>
6399	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6400	</listitem>
6401
6402	</itemizedlist>
6403
6404	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6405
6406	<itemizedlist>
6407
6408	<listitem>
6409	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6410	</listitem>
6411
6412	<listitem>
6413	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6414	certain conditions</para>
6415	</listitem>
6416
6417	<listitem>
6418	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6419	</listitem>
6420
6421	<listitem>
6422	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6423	</listitem>
6424
6425	<listitem>
6426	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6431	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6432	</listitem>
6433
6434	<listitem>
6435	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6436	</listitem>
6437
6438	<listitem>
6439	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6440	</listitem>
6441
6442	<listitem>
6443	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6444	</listitem>
6445
6446	<listitem>
6447	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6448	</listitem>
6449
6450	<listitem>
6451	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6452	</listitem>
6453
6454	<listitem>
6455	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6456	</listitem>
6457
6458	<listitem>
6459	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6460	</listitem>
6461
6462	<listitem>
6463	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6468	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6473	</listitem>
6474
6475	<listitem>
6476	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6477	</listitem>
6478
6479	<listitem>
6480	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6481	</listitem>
6482
6483	<listitem>
6484	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	<listitem>
6488	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6489	</listitem>
6490
6491	<listitem>
6492	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6493	</listitem>
6494
6495	<listitem>
6496	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6497	</listitem>
6498
6499	<listitem>
6500	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6501	</listitem>
6502
6503	<listitem>
6504	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6505	</listitem>
6506
6507	<listitem>
6508	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6509	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6510	</listitem>
6511
6512	<listitem>
6513	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6518	</listitem>
6519
6520	<listitem>
6521	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6522	</listitem>
6523
6524	<listitem>
6525	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6530	</listitem>
6531
6532	<listitem>
6533	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6542	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	<listitem>
6546	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6547	</listitem>
6548
6549	<listitem>
6550	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6551	</listitem>
6552
6553	<listitem>
6554	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6559	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6564	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6569	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6574	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6575	</listitem>
6576
6577	<listitem>
6578	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6579	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6592	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6597	guest property lookup</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6602	basic network information)</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6607	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6608	</listitem>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6612	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6613	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6614	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6619	</listitem>
6620
6621	<listitem>
6622	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6623	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6624	web service</para>
6625	</listitem>
6626
6627	<listitem>
6628	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6629	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6634	unavailable</para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6639	</listitem>
6640
6641	</itemizedlist>
6642	</sect1>
6643
6644	<sect1>
6645	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6646
6647	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6648	added:</para>
6649
6650	<itemizedlist>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6654	installation</para>
6655	</listitem>
6656
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6659	</listitem>
6660
6661	<listitem>
6662	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6663	later (bug #3981)</para>
6664	</listitem>
6665
6666	<listitem>
6667	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6668	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6669	</listitem>
6670
6671	<listitem>
6672	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6673	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6674	(bug #4034)
6675	</para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6680	networking</para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6685	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6690	clicks</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6695	Windows 7 guests</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6700	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6701	</listitem>
6702
6703	<listitem>
6704	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6705	</listitem>
6706
6707	<listitem>
6708	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6713	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6718	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6723	</listitem>
6724
6725	<listitem>
6726	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6727	</listitem>
6728
6729	<listitem>
6730	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6731	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6732	(bug #3864)</para>
6733	</listitem>
6734
6735	<listitem>
6736	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6737	now flushes the output stream</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6742	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6743	</listitem>
6744
6745	<listitem>
6746	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6747	</listitem>
6748
6749	<listitem>
6750	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6751	</listitem>
6752
6753	<listitem>
6754	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	<listitem>
6758	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6763	(bug #3964)</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6768	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6773	hosts</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6778	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6779	e1000 adapter</para>
6780	</listitem>
6781
6782	<listitem>
6783	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6784	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6785	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6786	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6787	</listitem>
6788
6789	<listitem>
6790	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6791	</listitem>
6792
6793	<listitem>
6794	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6795	</listitem>
6796
6797	<listitem>
6798	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6803	file (bug #1023)</para>
6804	</listitem>
6805
6806	<listitem>
6807	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6808	</listitem>
6809
6810	<listitem>
6811	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6812	</listitem>
6813
6814	</itemizedlist>
6815	</sect1>
6816
6817	<sect1>
6818	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6819
6820	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6821	added:</para>
6822
6823	<itemizedlist>
6824
6825	<listitem>
6826	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6827	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6828	</listitem>
6829
6830	<listitem>
6831	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6832	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6833	and later</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6838	running services</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6843	terminates</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6848	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6853	installed on the guest</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6858	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6859	</listitem>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6863	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6868	(bug #2628)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6873	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6878	(bug #3657)</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6883	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6884	</listitem>
6885
6886	<listitem>
6887	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6888	virtualization only)
6889	</para>
6890	</listitem>
6891
6892	<listitem>
6893	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6894	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6903	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6908	bug #3689)</para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6913	bug #3679)</para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6918	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6923	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6924	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6929	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6934	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6939	(bug #3667)</para>
6940	</listitem>
6941
6942	<listitem>
6943	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6944	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6945	</listitem>
6946
6947	<listitem>
6948	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6949	</listitem>
6950
6951	<listitem>
6952	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6953	</listitem>
6954
6955	<listitem>
6956	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6957	</listitem>
6958
6959	<listitem>
6960	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6961	</listitem>
6962
6963	<listitem>
6964	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	</itemizedlist>
6976	</sect1>
6977
6978	<sect1>
6979	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6980
6981	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6982	were added:</para>
6983
6984	<itemizedlist>
6985
6986	<listitem>
6987	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6988	</listitem>
6989
6990	<listitem>
6991	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6992	</listitem>
6993
6994	<listitem>
6995	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6996	</listitem>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
7000	</listitem>
7001
7002	<listitem>
7003	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
7004	</listitem>
7005
7006	<listitem>
7007	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
7008	</listitem>
7009
7010	<listitem>
7011	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
7012	</listitem>
7013
7014	<listitem>
7015	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7016	</listitem>
7017
7018	<listitem>
7019	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7024	</listitem>
7025
7026	</itemizedlist>
7027
7028	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7029
7030	<itemizedlist>
7031
7032	<listitem>
7033	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7034	</listitem>
7035
7036	<listitem>
7037	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7038	</listitem>
7039
7040	<listitem>
7041	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7046	</listitem>
7047
7048	<listitem>
7049	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7050	</listitem>
7051
7052	<listitem>
7053	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7054	</listitem>
7055
7056	<listitem>
7057	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7058	</listitem>
7059
7060	<listitem>
7061	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7066	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7067	</listitem>
7068
7069	<listitem>
7070	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7071	</listitem>
7072
7073	<listitem>
7074	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7075	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7080	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7081	</listitem>
7082
7083	<listitem>
7084	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7085	</listitem>
7086
7087	<listitem>
7088	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7089	</listitem>
7090
7091	<listitem>
7092	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7093	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7102	ESX server images)</para>
7103	</listitem>
7104
7105	<listitem>
7106	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7107	writable</para>
7108	</listitem>
7109
7110	<listitem>
7111	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7112	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7113	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7114	</listitem>
7115
7116	<listitem>
7117	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7118	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7119	</listitem>
7120
7121	<listitem>
7122	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7123	</listitem>
7124
7125	<listitem>
7126	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7127	</listitem>
7128
7129	<listitem>
7130	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7131	hosts when creating files</para>
7132	</listitem>
7133
7134	<listitem>
7135	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7136	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7137	</listitem>
7138
7139	<listitem>
7140	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7141	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7142	#2306)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7147	(bug #3555)</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7152	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7157	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7162	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7167	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7172	(bug #3586)</para>
7173	</listitem>
7174
7175	<listitem>
7176	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7177	from Scratch systems</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7182	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7191	default to compact format</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7196	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7197	</listitem>
7198
7199	<listitem>
7200	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7201	</listitem>
7202
7203	<listitem>
7204	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7205	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7206	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7207	</listitem>
7208
7209	<listitem>
7210	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7211	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7212	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7217	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7222	</listitem>
7223
7224	<listitem>
7225	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7226	</listitem>
7227
7228	<listitem>
7229	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7230	</listitem>
7231
7232	<listitem>
7233	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7234	</listitem>
7235
7236	<listitem>
7237	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7250	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7251	</listitem>
7252
7253	<listitem>
7254	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	<listitem>
7258	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7259	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7264	</listitem>
7265
7266	<listitem>
7267	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7268	</listitem>
7269
7270	<listitem>
7271	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7272	</listitem>
7273
7274	<listitem>
7275	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7276	#2536)</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7281	</listitem>
7282
7283	<listitem>
7284	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7285	(bug #3548)</para>
7286	</listitem>
7287
7288	</itemizedlist>
7289	</sect1>
7290
7291	<sect1>
7292	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7293
7294	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7295	added:</para>
7296
7297	<itemizedlist>
7298
7299	<listitem>
7300	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7301	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7302	</listitem>
7303
7304	<listitem>
7305	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7306	</listitem>
7307
7308	<listitem>
7309	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7310	</listitem>
7311
7312	<listitem>
7313	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7314	</listitem>
7315
7316	<listitem>
7317	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7318	(bug #3115)</para>
7319	</listitem>
7320
7321	<listitem>
7322	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7323	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7324	</listitem>
7325
7326	<listitem>
7327	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7328	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7329	(bug #3215)</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7334	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7339	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7344	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7345	</listitem>
7346
7347	<listitem>
7348	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7349	in parallel</para>
7350	</listitem>
7351
7352	<listitem>
7353	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7354	</listitem>
7355
7356	<listitem>
7357	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7358	</listitem>
7359
7360	<listitem>
7361	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7362	</listitem>
7363
7364	<listitem>
7365	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7366	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7367	</listitem>
7368
7369	<listitem>
7370	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7371	</listitem>
7372
7373	<listitem>
7374	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7375	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7380	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7381	</listitem>
7382
7383	<listitem>
7384	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7389	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	<listitem>
7393	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7394	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7395	</listitem>
7396
7397	<listitem>
7398	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7399	</listitem>
7400
7401	<listitem>
7402	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7403	</listitem>
7404
7405	<listitem>
7406	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7407	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7412	</listitem>
7413
7414	<listitem>
7415	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7416	</listitem>
7417
7418	<listitem>
7419	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7424	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7425	</listitem>
7426
7427	<listitem>
7428	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7429	</listitem>
7430
7431	<listitem>
7432	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7433	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7434	</listitem>
7435
7436	<listitem>
7437	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7438	</listitem>
7439
7440	<listitem>
7441	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7446	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7451	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7452	</listitem>
7453
7454	<listitem>
7455	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7456	</listitem>
7457
7458	<listitem>
7459	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7460	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7465	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7466	</listitem>
7467
7468	<listitem>
7469	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7470	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7471	</listitem>
7472
7473	<listitem>
7474	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7475	(bug #3213)</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	<listitem>
7479	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7480	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7481	</listitem>
7482
7483	<listitem>
7484	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7485	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7486	</listitem>
7487
7488	</itemizedlist>
7489	</sect1>
7490
7491	<sect1>
7492	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7493
7494	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7495	added:</para>
7496
7497	<itemizedlist>
7498
7499	<listitem>
7500	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7501	</listitem>
7502
7503	<listitem>
7504	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7505	</listitem>
7506
7507	<listitem>
7508	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7509	</listitem>
7510
7511	<listitem>
7512	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7513	</listitem>
7514
7515	<listitem>
7516	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7517	</listitem>
7518
7519	<listitem>
7520	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7521	</listitem>
7522
7523	<listitem>
7524	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7525	</listitem>
7526
7527	<listitem>
7528	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7529	</listitem>
7530
7531	<listitem>
7532	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7533	</listitem>
7534
7535	<listitem>
7536	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7537	</listitem>
7538
7539	<listitem>
7540	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7541	</listitem>
7542
7543	<listitem>
7544	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7545	</listitem>
7546
7547	<listitem>
7548	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7549	</listitem>
7550
7551	<listitem>
7552	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7553	</listitem>
7554
7555	<listitem>
7556	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7557	</listitem>
7558
7559	<listitem>
7560	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7565	(bug #3067)</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7570	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7571	</listitem>
7572
7573	<listitem>
7574	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7575	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7576	</listitem>
7577
7578	<listitem>
7579	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7584	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7585	</listitem>
7586
7587	<listitem>
7588	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7589	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7590	</listitem>
7591
7592	<listitem>
7593	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7598	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7603	</listitem>
7604
7605	<listitem>
7606	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7607	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	<listitem>
7611	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7612	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7613	</listitem>
7614
7615	<listitem>
7616	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7617	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7618	</para>
7619	</listitem>
7620
7621	<listitem>
7622	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7623	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7624	</para>
7625	</listitem>
7626
7627	<listitem>
7628	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7629	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7630	</para>
7631	</listitem>
7632
7633	<listitem>
7634	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7635	</listitem>
7636
7637	<listitem>
7638	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7639	</listitem>
7640
7641	<listitem>
7642	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7643	</listitem>
7644
7645	<listitem>
7646	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7651	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7656	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7657	</listitem>
7658
7659	<listitem>
7660	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7661	formatting a drive</para>
7662	</listitem>
7663
7664	<listitem>
7665	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7670	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7675	</listitem>
7676
7677	<listitem>
7678	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7679	</listitem>
7680
7681	<listitem>
7682	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7683	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7688	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7689	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7694	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7699	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7704	(bug #2768)</para>
7705	</listitem>
7706
7707	<listitem>
7708	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7709	</listitem>
7710
7711	<listitem>
7712	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7713	</listitem>
7714
7715	<listitem>
7716	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7717	single, unified package</para>
7718	</listitem>
7719
7720	<listitem>
7721	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7722	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7723	</listitem>
7724
7725	<listitem>
7726	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7727	</listitem>
7728
7729	<listitem>
7730	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7731	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7732	</listitem>
7733
7734	<listitem>
7735	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7736	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7737	</listitem>
7738
7739	<listitem>
7740	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7745	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7746	doing 3D</para>
7747	</listitem>
7748
7749	<listitem>
7750	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7755	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7760	</listitem>
7761
7762	<listitem>
7763	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7764	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7769	</listitem>
7770
7771	<listitem>
7772	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7773	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7774	</listitem>
7775
7776	<listitem>
7777	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7778	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7779	(bug #2938)</para>
7780	</listitem>
7781
7782	<listitem>
7783	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7784	Linux guests</para>
7785	</listitem>
7786
7787	<listitem>
7788	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7789	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7790	(bug #1776)</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7795	(bug #1612)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7800	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7805	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7810	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	</itemizedlist>
7814	</sect1>
7815
7816	<sect1>
7817	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7818
7819	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7820	were added:</para>
7821
7822	<itemizedlist>
7823	<listitem>
7824	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7825	</listitem>
7826
7827	<listitem>
7828	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7833	</listitem>
7834
7835	<listitem>
7836	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7837	</listitem>
7838
7839	<listitem>
7840	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7841	</listitem>
7842
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7849	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7854	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7855	</listitem>
7856
7857	</itemizedlist>
7858
7859	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7860
7861	<itemizedlist>
7862	<listitem>
7863	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7864	</listitem>
7865
7866	<listitem>
7867	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7868	</listitem>
7869
7870	<listitem>
7871	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7872	</listitem>
7873
7874	<listitem>
7875	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7880	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7885	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7890	</listitem>
7891
7892	<listitem>
7893	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7894	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7895	</listitem>
7896
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7899	</listitem>
7900
7901	<listitem>
7902	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7903	</listitem>
7904
7905	<listitem>
7906	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	<listitem>
7910	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7911	</listitem>
7912
7913	<listitem>
7914	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7915	</listitem>
7916
7917	<listitem>
7918	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7919	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7920	</listitem>
7921
7922	<listitem>
7923	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7924	the compiz window manager</para>
7925	</listitem>
7926
7927	<listitem>
7928	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7929	</listitem>
7930
7931	<listitem>
7932	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7933	</listitem>
7934
7935	<listitem>
7936	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7941	</listitem>
7942
7943	<listitem>
7944	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7949	</listitem>
7950
7951	<listitem>
7952	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7953	</listitem>
7954
7955	<listitem>
7956	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7957	</listitem>
7958
7959	<listitem>
7960	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7961	</listitem>
7962
7963	<listitem>
7964	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7965	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7966	</listitem>
7967
7968	<listitem>
7969	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7970	for direct device access</para>
7971	</listitem>
7972
7973	<listitem>
7974	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7975	</listitem>
7976
7977	<listitem>
7978	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7979	</listitem>
7980
7981	<listitem>
7982	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7983	</listitem>
7984
7985	<listitem>
7986	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7987	</listitem>
7988
7989	<listitem>
7990	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7991	</listitem>
7992
7993	<listitem>
7994	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7999	</listitem>
8000
8001	<listitem>
8002	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
8003	</listitem>
8004
8005	</itemizedlist>
8006	</sect1>
8007
8008	<sect1>
8009	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
8010
8011	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8012	added:</para>
8013
8014	<itemizedlist>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8018	states/snapshots</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8023	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8028	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8033	collisions</para>
8034	</listitem>
8035
8036	<listitem>
8037	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8038	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8039	</listitem>
8040
8041	<listitem>
8042	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8047	reliably</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8052	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8053	</listitem>
8054
8055	<listitem>
8056	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8057	a reboot</para>
8058	</listitem>
8059
8060	<listitem>
8061	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8062	</listitem>
8063
8064	<listitem>
8065	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8066	in parallel</para>
8067	</listitem>
8068
8069	<listitem>
8070	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8071	</listitem>
8072
8073	<listitem>
8074	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8075	correctly</para>
8076	</listitem>
8077
8078	<listitem>
8079	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8080	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	</itemizedlist>
8084	</sect1>
8085
8086	<sect1>
8087	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8088
8089	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8090	added:</para>
8091
8092	<itemizedlist>
8093
8094	<listitem>
8095	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8096	(bug #2220)</para>
8097	</listitem>
8098
8099	<listitem>
8100	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8101	</listitem>
8102
8103	<listitem>
8104	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8109	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8114	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8119	(bug #2624)</para>
8120	</listitem>
8121
8122	<listitem>
8123	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8124	(bug #2024)</para>
8125	</listitem>
8126
8127	<listitem>
8128	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8129	</listitem>
8130
8131	<listitem>
8132	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8133	</listitem>
8134
8135	<listitem>
8136	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8141	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8142	</listitem>
8143
8144	<listitem>
8145	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8146	applications when updating the installation</para>
8147	</listitem>
8148
8149	<listitem>
8150	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8151	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8156	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8157	</listitem>
8158
8159	<listitem>
8160	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8161	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8162	</listitem>
8163
8164	<listitem>
8165	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8166	connected to a host device</para>
8167	</listitem>
8168
8169	<listitem>
8170	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8175	</listitem>
8176
8177	<listitem>
8178	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8183	when using native RDP connections</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8188	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8189	</listitem>
8190
8191	<listitem>
8192	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8193	(bug #2591)</para>
8194	</listitem>
8195
8196	<listitem>
8197	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8198	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8199	</listitem>
8200
8201	<listitem>
8202	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8203	</listitem>
8204
8205	</itemizedlist>
8206	</sect1>
8207
8208	<sect1>
8209	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8210
8211	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8212	added:</para>
8213
8214	<itemizedlist>
8215	<listitem>
8216	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8217	</listitem>
8218
8219	<listitem>
8220	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8221	</listitem>
8222
8223	<listitem>
8224	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8225	</listitem>
8226
8227	<listitem>
8228	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8229	</listitem>
8230
8231	<listitem>
8232	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8233	</listitem>
8234
8235	<listitem>
8236	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8241	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8242	</listitem>
8243
8244	<listitem>
8245	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8246	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8247	</listitem>
8248
8249	<listitem>
8250	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8251	</listitem>
8252
8253	<listitem>
8254	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8255	equal to the client resolution</para>
8256	</listitem>
8257
8258	<listitem>
8259	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8260	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8261	</listitem>
8262
8263	<listitem>
8264	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8265	</listitem>
8266
8267	<listitem>
8268	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8269	</listitem>
8270
8271	<listitem>
8272	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8277	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8278	</listitem>
8279
8280	<listitem>
8281	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8282	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8287	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8288	</listitem>
8289
8290	<listitem>
8291	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8292	</listitem>
8293
8294	<listitem>
8295	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8296	</listitem>
8297
8298	<listitem>
8299	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8300	</listitem>
8301
8302	<listitem>
8303	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8308	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8309	</listitem>
8310
8311	<listitem>
8312	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8313	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8314	</listitem>
8315
8316	<listitem>
8317	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8318	</listitem>
8319
8320	<listitem>
8321	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8322	</listitem>
8323
8324	<listitem>
8325	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8326	</listitem>
8327
8328	</itemizedlist>
8329
8330	</sect1>
8331
8332	<sect1>
8333	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8334
8335	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8336	added:</para>
8337
8338	<itemizedlist>
8339
8340	<listitem>
8341	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8342	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8343	</listitem>
8344
8345	<listitem>
8346	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8347	</listitem>
8348
8349	<listitem>
8350	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8351	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8352	</listitem>
8353
8354	<listitem>
8355	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8356	</listitem>
8357
8358	<listitem>
8359	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8360	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8361	</listitem>
8362
8363	<listitem>
8364	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8365	</listitem>
8366
8367	<listitem>
8368	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8369	the virtual disk manager</para>
8370	</listitem>
8371
8372	<listitem>
8373	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8374	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8375	</listitem>
8376
8377	<listitem>
8378	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8379	</listitem>
8380
8381	<listitem>
8382	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8383	</listitem>
8384
8385	<listitem>
8386	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8387	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8388	</listitem>
8389
8390	<listitem>
8391	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8392	bug #2067)</para>
8393	</listitem>
8394
8395	<listitem>
8396	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8397	</listitem>
8398
8399	<listitem>
8400	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8401	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8402	</listitem>
8403
8404	<listitem>
8405	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8406	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8407	(bug #2184)</para>
8408	</listitem>
8409
8410	<listitem>
8411	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8412	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8413	</listitem>
8414
8415	<listitem>
8416	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8417	(Windows guests only)</para>
8418	</listitem>
8419
8420	<listitem>
8421	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8422	</listitem>
8423
8424	<listitem>
8425	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8426	</listitem>
8427
8428	<listitem>
8429	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8430	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8431	</listitem>
8432
8433	<listitem>
8434	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8435	</listitem>
8436
8437	<listitem>
8438	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8439	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8440	</para>
8441	</listitem>
8442
8443	<listitem>
8444	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8445	</listitem>
8446
8447	<listitem>
8448	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8449	</listitem>
8450
8451	<listitem>
8452	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8453	a VM reboot</para>
8454	</listitem>
8455
8456	<listitem>
8457	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8462	buggy X servers</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8467	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8468	</listitem>
8469
8470	<listitem>
8471	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8472	</listitem>
8473
8474	<listitem>
8475	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8476	(bug #2128)</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8481	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8486	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8487	</listitem>
8488
8489	<listitem>
8490	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8491	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8496	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8497	</listitem>
8498
8499	<listitem>
8500	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8501	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8502	</listitem>
8503
8504	<listitem>
8505	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8506	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8507	</listitem>
8508
8509	<listitem>
8510	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8511	installer into a single package</para>
8512	</listitem>
8513
8514	<listitem>
8515	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8516	port to the guest
8517	</para>
8518	</listitem>
8519
8520	</itemizedlist>
8521
8522	</sect1>
8523
8524	<sect1>
8525	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8526
8527	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8528	were added:<itemizedlist>
8529
8530	<listitem>
8531	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8532	</listitem>
8533
8534	<listitem>
8535	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8536	</listitem>
8537
8538	<listitem>
8539	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8540	</listitem>
8541
8542	<listitem>
8543	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8544	</listitem>
8545
8546	<listitem>
8547	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8548	</listitem>
8549
8550	<listitem>
8551	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8552	</listitem>
8553
8554	<listitem>
8555	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8556	</listitem>
8557
8558	<listitem>
8559	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8560	</listitem>
8561
8562	<listitem>
8563	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8564	</listitem>
8565
8566	<listitem>
8567	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8568	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8569	</listitem>
8570
8571	<listitem>
8572	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8573	</listitem>
8574
8575	<listitem>
8576	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8577	</listitem>
8578
8579	<listitem>
8580	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8581	</listitem>
8582
8583	</itemizedlist></para>
8584
8585	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8586
8587	<itemizedlist>
8588
8589	<listitem>
8590	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8591	</listitem>
8592
8593	<listitem>
8594	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8595	</listitem>
8596
8597	<listitem>
8598	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8599	</listitem>
8600
8601	<listitem>
8602	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8603	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8604	</listitem>
8605
8606	<listitem>
8607	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8608	restored</para>
8609	</listitem>
8610
8611	<listitem>
8612	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8613	</listitem>
8614
8615	<listitem>
8616	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8617	</listitem>
8618
8619	<listitem>
8620	<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>
8621	</listitem>
8622
8623	</itemizedlist>
8624
8625	</sect1>
8626

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