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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code including many bug fixes and
13	performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	</itemizedlist>
21
22	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
23
24	<itemizedlist>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
28	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>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	<listitem>
76	<para>Windows guests: ability to track guest user idle times through
77	the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent.</para>
78	</listitem>
79
80	</itemizedlist>
81
82	</sect1>
83
84	<sect1>
85
86	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
87
88	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
89	were added:</para>
90
91	<itemizedlist>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
111	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
116	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
121	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
122	</listitem>
123
124	<listitem>
125	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
126	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
127	planned. (bug #81)</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	<listitem>
135	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
136	documentation for more information</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	</itemizedlist>
140
141	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
142
143	<itemizedlist>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
147	on Mountain Lion</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
152	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
153	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
158	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
163	nested paging</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
168	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
173	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
178	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
191	</listitem>
192
193	<listitem>
194	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
195	</listitem>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
199	</listitem>
200
201	<listitem>
202	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
203	</listitem>
204
205	<listitem>
206	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
215	guests</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
220	used ISO images</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
225	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
230	(bug #9973)</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
235	(bug #9864)</para>
236	</listitem>
237
238	<listitem>
239	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
240	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
241	immediately</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
246	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
251	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
252	any time using the VM menu</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
265	</listitem>
266
267	<listitem>
268	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
269	</listitem>
270
271	<listitem>
272	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
285	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
294	support for v2 images)</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
303	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
316	VirtualBox update</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
321	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	</itemizedlist>
329	</sect1>
330
331	<sect1>
332	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
333
334	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
335	added:</para>
336
337	<itemizedlist>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
341	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
342	and others)</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
347	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
352	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
357	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
362	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
367	(bug #10631)</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
372	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
373	(bug #10624)</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
382	updated (bug #9887)</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	</itemizedlist>
390	</sect1>
391
392	<sect1>
393	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
394
395	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
396	added:</para>
397
398	<itemizedlist>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
402	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
407	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
412	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
413	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
418	guests in rare cases</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
427	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
432	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
433	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
434	</listitem>
435
436	<listitem>
437	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
446	reason (bug #6189)</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
455	paused</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
460	(bug #10267)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
469	(bug #10418)</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
474	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
475	(bug #10581)</para>
476	</listitem>
477
478	<listitem>
479	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
480	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
481	</listitem>
482
483	<listitem>
484	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
485	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
486	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
487	</listitem>
488
489	<listitem>
490	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	</itemizedlist>
494
495	</sect1>
496
497	<sect1>
498	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
499
500	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
501	added:</para>
502
503	<itemizedlist>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
507	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
508	(bug #3783)</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
517	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
522	</listitem>
523
524	</itemizedlist>
525
526	</sect1>
527
528	<sect1>
529	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
530
531	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
532	added:</para>
533
534	<itemizedlist>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
538	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
539	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
544	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
549	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
550	</listitem>
551
552	<listitem>
553	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
562	4.1.10 regression)</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
571	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
580	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
585	4.1.10 regression)</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
590	closed (bug #6473)</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
595	properly installed</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	</itemizedlist>
603	</sect1>
604
605	<sect1>
606	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
607
608	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
609	added:</para>
610
611	<itemizedlist>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
615	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
620	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
625	fusion</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
630	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
635	and network mask attributes</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
640	(bug #10030)</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
645	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
658	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
667	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
672	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
677	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
694	</listitem>
695
696	<listitem>
697	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
706	in a zone</para>
707	</listitem>
708
709	<listitem>
710	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
715	(bug #9651)</para>
716	</listitem>
717
718	<listitem>
719	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
724	#10010)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
729	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
734	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
743	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
748	(bug #10151)</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
753	guests</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	</itemizedlist>
769	</sect1>
770
771	<sect1>
772	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
773
774	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
775	added:</para>
776
777	<itemizedlist>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
781	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
790	(bug #9642)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
795	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
796	</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
805	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
810	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
827	circumstances</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
836	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
841	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
842	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
843	and for 3D support in general</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
848	</listitem>
849
850	<listitem>
851	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
860	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	</itemizedlist>
864	</sect1>
865
866	<sect1>
867	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
868
869	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
870	added:</para>
871
872	<itemizedlist>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
880	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
885	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
890	certain guests</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
899	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
900	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
905	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
914	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
923	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
928	guests</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
933	folders</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
938	shared folders</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
943	users and stale sessions</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
948	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	</itemizedlist>
952	</sect1>
953
954	<sect1>
955	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
956
957	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
958	added:</para>
959
960	<itemizedlist>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
964	bug #9458)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
969	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
974	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
983	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
988	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
993	(bug #9308)</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
998	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
1003	(bug #9503)</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
1008	(bug #9242)</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
1013	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
1014	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1023	images</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1028	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1033	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1038	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1043	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1048	#9387)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1053	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1058	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1063	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1068	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1081	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1086	(bug #1578)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1091	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1096	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1101	(bug #9535)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1106	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1111	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1116	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1121	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1126	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1131	</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1136	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1137	</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1142	(bug #6229)
1143	</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1148	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1153	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1158	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1163	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1168	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1173	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1178	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1183	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	</itemizedlist>
1187	</sect1>
1188
1189	<sect1>
1190	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1191
1192	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1193	added:</para>
1194
1195	<itemizedlist>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1203	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1212	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1217	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1222	a live snapshot</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1227	due to a library version conflict</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1232	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1237	at a time by default</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1242	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1243	#9368)</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1248	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1253	VMs</para>
1254	</listitem>
1255
1256	<listitem>
1257	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1258	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1263	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1264	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1269	(bug #9308)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1274	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1283	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1288	(bug #9242)</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1293	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1298	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1303	USB devices</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1308	and warn about it</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1321	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1326	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1331	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1336	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1341	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1346	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1351	2.6.37 and above</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	</itemizedlist>
1355	</sect1>
1356
1357	<sect1>
1358	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1359
1360	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1361	were added:</para>
1362
1363	<itemizedlist>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1367	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1368	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1369	</listitem>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1381	bug #7822)</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	<listitem>
1385	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1390	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	<listitem>
1394	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1395	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1396	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1397	anymore)</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1402	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1407	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1408	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1409	</listitem>
1410
1411	<listitem>
1412	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1413	</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	<listitem>
1417	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1418	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1419	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1424	with VBoxManage</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1429	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432
1433	</itemizedlist>
1434
1435	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1436
1437	<itemizedlist>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1453	of the current state</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1462	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1467	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1468	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1473	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1482	</listitem>
1483
1484	<listitem>
1485	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1486	dialog</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1491	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1492	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1497	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1502	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1507	be a valid UUID</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1512	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1517	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1518	cases</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1523	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1524	improve performance</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1529	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1530	on a temporary basis</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1535	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1536	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1541	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1546	images in VDI format</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1551	VMDK format</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	<listitem>
1555	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1556	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1561	</listitem>
1562
1563	<listitem>
1564	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1581	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1586	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1591	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1596	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1601	RDP clients</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1610	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1615	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1620	simultaneously</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1625	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1626	location values in many places</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1635	builds</para>
1636	</listitem>
1637
1638	<listitem>
1639	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1644	window (bug #4491)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1649	removing a VM</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1658	</listitem>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1662	166 and above)</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1667	hosts</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1672	</listitem>
1673
1674	<listitem>
1675	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1676	from the host</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	</itemizedlist>
1684
1685	</sect1>
1686
1687	<sect1>
1688	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1689
1690	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1691	added:</para>
1692
1693	<itemizedlist>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1701	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1706	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1711	a live snapshot</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1716	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1717	</listitem>
1718
1719	<listitem>
1720	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1729	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1734	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1739	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1748	images</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1753	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1757	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	<listitem>
1761	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1762	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1771	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1776	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	<listitem>
1780	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1785	(bug #9370)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1790	(bug #9535)</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1795	(bug #1578)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1800	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1805	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1806	</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1811	</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1816	2.6.37 and above</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1821	(bug #6229)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1826	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	</itemizedlist>
1830	</sect1>
1831
1832	<sect1>
1833	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1834
1835	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1836	added:</para>
1837
1838	<itemizedlist>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1846	166 and above)</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1851	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1852	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1857	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1862	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1863	</listitem>
1864
1865	<listitem>
1866	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1871	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1876	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1881	builds</para>
1882	</listitem>
1883
1884	<listitem>
1885	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	</itemizedlist>
1889	</sect1>
1890	<sect1>
1891	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1892
1893	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1894	added:</para>
1895
1896	<itemizedlist>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1908	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1913	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1918	</listitem>
1919
1920	<listitem>
1921	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1922	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1931	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1936	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1945	</listitem>
1946
1947	<listitem>
1948	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1949	file was not written during export</para>
1950	</listitem>
1951
1952	<listitem>
1953	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1954	</listitem>
1955
1956	<listitem>
1957	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1958	</listitem>
1959
1960	<listitem>
1961	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1966	binaries</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1975	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1980	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1989	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	</itemizedlist>
1993	</sect1>
1994
1995	<sect1>
1996	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1997
1998	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1999	added:</para>
2000
2001	<itemizedlist>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
2005	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
2010	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
2015	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2020	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2025	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2030	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2035	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2040	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2053	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2058	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2071	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2076	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2081	window</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2086	Fedora 15</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2091	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2096	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2101	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2110	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	</itemizedlist>
2114	</sect1>
2115
2116	<sect1>
2117	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2118
2119	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2120	added:</para>
2121
2122	<itemizedlist>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2126	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2131	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2136	(bug #8006)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2141	(bug #8726)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2154	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2159	(bug #8469)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2164	selectors</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2169	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2174	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2179	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2188	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2201	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2206	I/O error occurred</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2211	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2216	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2221	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2222	if no medium is present</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2231	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2236	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2237	</listitem>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2241	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2250	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2255	library (bug #8063)</para>
2256	</listitem>
2257
2258	<listitem>
2259	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2260	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2261	</listitem>
2262
2263	<listitem>
2264	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2277	changed on import</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2286	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2291	(bug #8593)</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2296	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2301	captured</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2306	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2311	</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2316	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2321	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2326	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2327	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2332	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2341	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2346	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2351	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2364	</listitem>
2365
2366	<listitem>
2367	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2368	</listitem>
2369
2370	<listitem>
2371	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2372	(bug #7946)</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	</itemizedlist>
2388
2389	</sect1>
2390
2391	<sect1>
2392	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2393
2394	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2395	added:</para>
2396
2397	<itemizedlist>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2401	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2406	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2411	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2416	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2421	number of host network interfaces</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2426	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2435	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2440	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2445	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2454	(bug #6577)</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2459	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2460	(bug #8235)</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2465	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2466	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2475	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2484	(bug #7966)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2501	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2514	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2519	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2524	</listitem>
2525
2526	<listitem>
2527	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2528	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2533	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2534	(bug #8122)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2539	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2552	(bug #1548)</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2561	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	<listitem>
2565	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2570	(bug #8231)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2575	11.04 Alpha</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2580	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2585	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2590	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2595	with VBoxGINA</para>
2596	</listitem>
2597
2598	</itemizedlist>
2599
2600	</sect1>
2601
2602	<sect1>
2603	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2604
2605	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2606	added:</para>
2607
2608	<itemizedlist>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2612	settings vanished</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2617	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2622	created (bug #8031)</para>
2623	</listitem>
2624
2625	<listitem>
2626	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2631	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2636	an extension pack</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2641	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2650	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2655	host-only interface</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2660	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2665	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2670	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2675	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2680	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2693	guests</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2706	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2711	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2716	a VM start</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2721	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2726	(bug #6067)</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2731	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2736	not saved to machine XML</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2741	#7983)</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2746	#7981)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2755	regression)</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2760	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2765	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	</itemizedlist>
2769
2770	</sect1>
2771
2772	<sect1>
2773	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2774
2775	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2776	were added:</para>
2777
2778	<itemizedlist>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2782	</listitem>
2783
2784	<listitem>
2785	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2790	<itemizedlist>
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	<listitem>
2800	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2805	</listitem>
2806
2807	<listitem>
2808	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2809	states, and optionally including attached
2810	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2811	can do the same now)</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	</itemizedlist>
2819	</para>
2820	</listitem>
2821
2822	<listitem>
2823	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2824	</listitem>
2825
2826	<listitem>
2827	<para>New virtual hardware:
2828	<itemizedlist>
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2831	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2836	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838	</itemizedlist>
2839	</para>
2840	</listitem>
2841
2842	<listitem>
2843	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2844	<itemizedlist>
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2851	</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2856	now</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	</itemizedlist>
2864	</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2869	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2874	Parallels images</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2883	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2888	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	</itemizedlist>
2892
2893	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2894
2895	<itemizedlist>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2899	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2908	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2913	(bug #1657)</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2918	</listitem>
2919
2920	<listitem>
2921	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2926	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2931	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2932	</listitem>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2936	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2937	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2942	again (bug #6864)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2947	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2952	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2985	(bug #7058)</para>
2986	</listitem>
2987
2988	<listitem>
2989	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2990	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2995	circumstances</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
3000	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
3001	#5578)
3002	</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
3011	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3020	#6760)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3025	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3030	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3035	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3044	file</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3049	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	</itemizedlist>
3053
3054	</sect1>
3055
3056	<sect1>
3057	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3058
3059	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3060	added:</para>
3061
3062	<itemizedlist>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3066	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3071	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3072	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3081	</listitem>
3082
3083	<listitem>
3084	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3089	the VM is running</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3094	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3095	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3096	starting from a saved state</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3101	</listitem>
3102
3103	<listitem>
3104	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3105	</listitem>
3106
3107	<listitem>
3108	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3121	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3126	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3131	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3140	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3141	</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3146	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3147	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3152	only)</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3157	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3174	state (bug #4124)</para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3179	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3188	(bug #2996)</para>
3189	</listitem>
3190
3191	<listitem>
3192	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3193	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3202	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3203	</listitem>
3204
3205	<listitem>
3206	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3207	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3212	user accounts for VM information</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	</itemizedlist>
3216
3217	</sect1>
3218
3219	<sect1>
3220	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3221
3222	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3223	added:</para>
3224
3225	<itemizedlist>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3229	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3246	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3251	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3256	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3261	(bug #4952)</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3266	bug #6122)</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3271	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3276	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3277	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3286	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3291	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3296	canceled</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3305	</listitem>
3306
3307	<listitem>
3308	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3309	</listitem>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3317	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3326	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3331	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3340	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3349	circumstances</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3354	printers</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3363	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3368	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3373	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3374	circumstances</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3379	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3384	as supported extension</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3389	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3394	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3395	</listitem>
3396
3397	<listitem>
3398	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3403	(bug #7366)</para>
3404	</listitem>
3405
3406	<listitem>
3407	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3412	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3417	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3422	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3427	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3432	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3433	</listitem>
3434
3435	<listitem>
3436	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3445	more than one environment variable</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3450	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3455	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3456	</listitem>
3457
3458	<listitem>
3459	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3460	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3461	</listitem>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3465	enumerating logged in users</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3482	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3491	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3496	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3501	(bug #7448)</para>
3502	</listitem>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3506	</listitem>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	</itemizedlist>
3517
3518	</sect1>
3519
3520	<sect1>
3521	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3522
3523	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3524	added:</para>
3525
3526	<itemizedlist>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3530	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3539	bug #6809)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	<listitem>
3547	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3552	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	<listitem>
3556	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3557	changes</para>
3558	</listitem>
3559
3560	<listitem>
3561	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3566	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3571	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3576	</listitem>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3592	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3601	(bug #6832)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3606	guests</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3615	without external tools and tricks</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3620	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3629	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3634	shutdown</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3639	fixes</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3644	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3645	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3646	</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3651	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3656	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3661	</para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3670	</listitem>
3671
3672	<listitem>
3673	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3674	</listitem>
3675
3676	</itemizedlist>
3677
3678	</sect1>
3679
3680	<sect1>
3681	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3682
3683	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3684	added:</para>
3685
3686	<itemizedlist>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3690	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3691	</listitem>
3692
3693	<listitem>
3694	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3695	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3700	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3701	</listitem>
3702
3703	<listitem>
3704	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3705	</listitem>
3706
3707	<listitem>
3708	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3721	assigned</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3726	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3731	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3740	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3745	again (bug #7022).
3746	</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3751	(bug #6768)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3756	(bug #6927)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3761	bug #7031)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3766	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3767	</listitem>
3768
3769	<listitem>
3770	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3771	bug #6987)</para>
3772	</listitem>
3773
3774	<listitem>
3775	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3776	</listitem>
3777
3778	<listitem>
3779	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3784	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3785	</listitem>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3793	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3802	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3803	bug #6872)</para>
3804	</listitem>
3805
3806	<listitem>
3807	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3812	(performance tweak)</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3817	is currently paused</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3822	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	<listitem>
3830	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3831	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3836	not properly saved</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3841	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3850	</listitem>
3851
3852	<listitem>
3853	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3858	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3867	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3872	(bug #5251)</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3877	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3878	</listitem>
3879
3880	<listitem>
3881	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3890	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	</itemizedlist>
3906	</sect1>
3907
3908	<sect1>
3909	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3910
3911	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3912	added:</para>
3913
3914	<itemizedlist>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3918	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3919	</listitem>
3920
3921	<listitem>
3922	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3927	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3932	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3941	again (bug #6864)</para>
3942	</listitem>
3943
3944	<listitem>
3945	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3946	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3955	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	</itemizedlist>
3963
3964	</sect1>
3965
3966	<sect1>
3967	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3968
3969	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3970	added:</para>
3971
3972	<itemizedlist>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3980	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3989	state</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
4010	</listitem>
4011
4012	<listitem>
4013	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4026	</listitem>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4034	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4039	(bug #6784)</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4044	</listitem>
4045
4046	<listitem>
4047	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4052	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4053	</listitem>
4054
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4057	</listitem>
4058
4059	<listitem>
4060	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4065	host only</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4070	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4075	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4084	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4097	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4114	(bug #6714)</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	<listitem>
4122	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4127	</listitem>
4128
4129	<listitem>
4130	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	</itemizedlist>
4138
4139	</sect1>
4140
4141	<sect1>
4142	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4143
4144	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4145	were added:</para>
4146
4147	<itemizedlist>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4151	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4152	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4161	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4166	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4167	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4172	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4177	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4178	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4179	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4180	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4181	</listitem>
4182
4183	<listitem>
4184	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4189	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	<listitem>
4193	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4194	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4195	</listitem>
4196
4197	<listitem>
4198	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4211	</listitem>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4215	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4216	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4221	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	</itemizedlist>
4225
4226	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4227
4228	<itemizedlist>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4232	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4241	VM</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4246	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4251	#1669)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4256	#6442)</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4261	combination (bug #684)</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4266	the VM from the GUI</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4271	medium is not accessible</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4280	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4285	#3106)</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4290	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4291	it</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4304	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4309	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4322	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4323	</listitem>
4324
4325	<listitem>
4326	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4331	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4340	in VirtualBox</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4345	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4350	VirtualBox</para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4359	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	</itemizedlist>
4363	</sect1>
4364
4365	<sect1>
4366	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4367
4368	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4369	added:</para>
4370
4371	<itemizedlist>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4375	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4388	only) </para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4393	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4398	interface version</para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4403	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4404	slot empty</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4409	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4410	(bug #4220)</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4419	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4424	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4429	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4434	attached</para>
4435	</listitem>
4436
4437	<listitem>
4438	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4439	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4440	</listitem>
4441
4442	<listitem>
4443	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4448	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4453	is bug #6408)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4462	fail to initialize</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4471	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4476	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4477	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4486	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4491	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4496	(bug #6435)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4501	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4506	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4507	(bug #6488)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4512	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4517	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4522	#5227)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4527	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4536	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4537	</listitem>
4538
4539	</itemizedlist>
4540	</sect1>
4541
4542	<sect1>
4543	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4544
4545	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4546	added:</para>
4547
4548	<itemizedlist>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4552	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4557	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4562	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4567	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4568	</listitem>
4569
4570	<listitem>
4571	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4572	</listitem>
4573
4574	<listitem>
4575	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4588	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4593	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4598	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4611	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4616	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4617	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4622	(bug #5297)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4627	(bug #4962)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4632	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4637	(bug #6176)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4642	certain circumstances</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4647	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4660	(bug #3571)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4665	devices</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4670	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4671	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4676	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4685	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4690	response</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4711	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4724	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	</itemizedlist>
4744	</sect1>
4745
4746	<sect1>
4747	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4748
4749	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4750	added:</para>
4751
4752	<itemizedlist>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4764	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4769	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4774	(bug #3945)</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4779	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4784	and AMD-V only) </para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4789	</listitem>
4790
4791	<listitem>
4792	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4793	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4794	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4799	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4804	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4809	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4814	snapshots command</para>
4815	</listitem>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4823	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4824	</listitem>
4825
4826	<listitem>
4827	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4832	</listitem>
4833
4834	<listitem>
4835	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4836	</listitem>
4837
4838	<listitem>
4839	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4840	(KWin bug)</para>
4841	</listitem>
4842
4843	<listitem>
4844	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4845	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4854	</listitem>
4855
4856	<listitem>
4857	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4866	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4871	bug #5787)</para>
4872	</listitem>
4873
4874	<listitem>
4875	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4876	DHCP requests</para>
4877	</listitem>
4878
4879	<listitem>
4880	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4881	(bug #3217)</para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4886	range (bug #5923)</para>
4887	</listitem>
4888
4889	<listitem>
4890	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4891	</listitem>
4892
4893	<listitem>
4894	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4895	</listitem>
4896
4897	<listitem>
4898	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4899	</listitem>
4900
4901	<listitem>
4902	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4907	file (bug #5681)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4912	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4917	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4922	regression)</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4943	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4952	</listitem>
4953
4954	<listitem>
4955	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4956	</listitem>
4957
4958	<listitem>
4959	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4960	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4965	</listitem>
4966
4967	<listitem>
4968	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4969	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4970	</listitem>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4986	(bug #5731)</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4991	again</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	</itemizedlist>
4995
4996	</sect1>
4997
4998	<sect1>
4999	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
5000
5001	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5002	added:</para>
5003
5004	<itemizedlist>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5028	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5053	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5058	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5063	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5064	#1762)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5069	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5074	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5079	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5088	</listitem>
5089
5090	<listitem>
5091	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5092	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5097	</listitem>
5098
5099	<listitem>
5100	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5105	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5110	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5119	guests</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5124	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5129	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5134	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	<listitem>
5138	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5139	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5140	</listitem>
5141
5142	<listitem>
5143	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5160	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	</itemizedlist>
5168
5169	</sect1>
5170
5171	<sect1>
5172	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5173
5174	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5175	were added:</para>
5176
5177	<itemizedlist>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5181	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5186	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5187	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5192	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5193	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5198	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5199	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5204	running</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5209	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5214	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5219	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5224	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	</itemizedlist>
5228
5229	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5230
5231	<itemizedlist>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5247	(bug #5291)</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5264	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5269	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5274	</listitem>
5275
5276	<listitem>
5277	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5294	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5299	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5304	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5309	(bug #2723)</para>
5310	</listitem>
5311
5312	<listitem>
5313	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5318	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5319	</listitem>
5320
5321	<listitem>
5322	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5323	optional manifest file on import</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5332	(bug #3773)</para>
5333	</listitem>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5345	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5350	(bug #4866)</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5355	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5360	certain conditions</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5381	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5382	</listitem>
5383
5384	<listitem>
5385	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5390	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5411	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5416	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5417	(bug #928)</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5422	</listitem>
5423
5424	</itemizedlist>
5425
5426	</sect1>
5427
5428	<sect1>
5429	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5430
5431	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5432	added:</para>
5433
5434	<itemizedlist>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5438	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5443	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5448	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5453	enabled</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5458	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5463	(bug #2676)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5468	is connected to a raw file</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5473	(bug #5355)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5482	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5487	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5488	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5489	</listitem>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5497	</listitem>
5498
5499	<listitem>
5500	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5501	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5506	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5507	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	</itemizedlist>
5511
5512	</sect1>
5513
5514	<sect1>
5515	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5516
5517	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5518	added:</para>
5519
5520	<itemizedlist>
5521
5522	<listitem>
5523	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5524	</listitem>
5525
5526	<listitem>
5527	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5532	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5533	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5538	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5559	</listitem>
5560
5561	<listitem>
5562	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5563	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5568	</listitem>
5569
5570	<listitem>
5571	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5576	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5585	exhaustion</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5594	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5599	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5604	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5609	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5610	(bug #2921)</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5615	hosts only)</para>
5616	</listitem>
5617
5618	<listitem>
5619	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5620	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5621	</listitem>
5622
5623	<listitem>
5624	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5629	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5634	</listitem>
5635
5636	<listitem>
5637	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5638	image inconsistency </para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5647	</listitem>
5648
5649	<listitem>
5650	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5651	(bug #2025)</para>
5652	</listitem>
5653
5654	<listitem>
5655	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5656	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5657	</listitem>
5658
5659	</itemizedlist>
5660
5661	</sect1>
5662
5663	<sect1>
5664	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5665
5666	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5667	added:</para>
5668
5669	<itemizedlist>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5673	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5678	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5683	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5692	software virtualization only) </para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5697	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5702	with root privileges</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5707	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5712	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5717	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5722	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5723	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5728	available</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5733	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5738	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5743	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5748	(bug #4907)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5753	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5758	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5779	are installed</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5784	(bug #4771)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5793	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5798	command</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5811	(bug #5089)</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	</itemizedlist>
5819
5820	</sect1>
5821
5822	<sect1>
5823	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5824
5825	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5826	added:</para>
5827
5828	<itemizedlist>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5832	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5837	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5842	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5843	</listitem>
5844
5845	<listitem>
5846	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5847	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5852	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5857	</listitem>
5858
5859	<listitem>
5860	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5861	</listitem>
5862
5863	<listitem>
5864	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5877	onlined or offlined</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5886	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5891	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5900	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5905	</listitem>
5906
5907	<listitem>
5908	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5925	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5926	</listitem>
5927
5928	<listitem>
5929	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5930	</listitem>
5931
5932	<listitem>
5933	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5942	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5947	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	<listitem>
5967	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5972	</listitem>
5973
5974	<listitem>
5975	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5976	</listitem>
5977
5978	<listitem>
5979	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5980	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5981	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5982	phase collapse</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5987	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5992	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
6001	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
6006	interface bringup on Linux</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
6015	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
6016	#4698, #4790)</para>
6017	</listitem>
6018
6019	<listitem>
6020	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6021	less than the configured range</para>
6022	</listitem>
6023
6024	<listitem>
6025	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6026	</listitem>
6027
6028	<listitem>
6029	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6030	</listitem>
6031
6032	<listitem>
6033	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6034	</listitem>
6035
6036	<listitem>
6037	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6042	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6047	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6052	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6061	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6066	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6071	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6076	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	<listitem>
6084	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	</itemizedlist>
6088
6089	</sect1>
6090
6091	<sect1>
6092	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6093
6094	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6095	added:</para>
6096
6097	<itemizedlist>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6101	</listitem>
6102
6103	<listitem>
6104	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6105	</listitem>
6106
6107	<listitem>
6108	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6109	</listitem>
6110
6111	<listitem>
6112	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6113	</listitem>
6114
6115	<listitem>
6116	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6117	</listitem>
6118
6119	<listitem>
6120	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6125	</listitem>
6126
6127	<listitem>
6128	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6129	</listitem>
6130
6131	<listitem>
6132	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6133	</listitem>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6137	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6146	</listitem>
6147
6148	<listitem>
6149	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6150	</listitem>
6151
6152	<listitem>
6153	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6154	</listitem>
6155
6156	<listitem>
6157	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6158	</listitem>
6159
6160	<listitem>
6161	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6166	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6171	(bug #4654)</para>
6172	</listitem>
6173
6174	<listitem>
6175	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6180	interfaces</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6185	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6190	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6195	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6196	</listitem>
6197
6198	<listitem>
6199	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6200	(bug #1461)</para>
6201	</listitem>
6202
6203	<listitem>
6204	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6209	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6210	</listitem>
6211
6212	<listitem>
6213	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6214	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6219	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6220	</listitem>
6221
6222	<listitem>
6223	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6224	</listitem>
6225
6226	<listitem>
6227	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6228	</listitem>
6229
6230	<listitem>
6231	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6236	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6241	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6246	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	<listitem>
6250	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6251	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6252	</listitem>
6253
6254	</itemizedlist>
6255
6256	</sect1>
6257	<sect1>
6258	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6259
6260	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6261	added:</para>
6262
6263	<itemizedlist>
6264
6265	<listitem>
6266	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6275	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6276	</listitem>
6277
6278	<listitem>
6279	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6280	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6281	</listitem>
6282
6283	<listitem>
6284	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	<listitem>
6300	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6305	</listitem>
6306
6307	<listitem>
6308	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6309	</listitem>
6310
6311	<listitem>
6312	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6313	</listitem>
6314
6315	<listitem>
6316	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6317	</listitem>
6318
6319	<listitem>
6320	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6321	</listitem>
6322
6323	<listitem>
6324	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6325	</listitem>
6326
6327	<listitem>
6328	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6329	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6330	</listitem>
6331
6332	<listitem>
6333	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6334	</listitem>
6335
6336	<listitem>
6337	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6338	</listitem>
6339
6340	<listitem>
6341	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6342	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6343	</listitem>
6344
6345	<listitem>
6346	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6347	</listitem>
6348
6349	<listitem>
6350	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6355	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6368	</listitem>
6369
6370	<listitem>
6371	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6372	</listitem>
6373
6374	<listitem>
6375	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<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>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	</itemizedlist>
6383
6384	</sect1>
6385
6386	<sect1>
6387	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6388
6389	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6390	were added:</para>
6391
6392	<itemizedlist>
6393
6394	<listitem>
6395	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6396	</listitem>
6397
6398	<listitem>
6399	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6400	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	</itemizedlist>
6408
6409	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6410
6411	<itemizedlist>
6412
6413	<listitem>
6414	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6415	</listitem>
6416
6417	<listitem>
6418	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6419	certain conditions</para>
6420	</listitem>
6421
6422	<listitem>
6423	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6424	</listitem>
6425
6426	<listitem>
6427	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6428	</listitem>
6429
6430	<listitem>
6431	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6432	</listitem>
6433
6434	<listitem>
6435	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6436	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6449	</listitem>
6450
6451	<listitem>
6452	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6453	</listitem>
6454
6455	<listitem>
6456	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6457	</listitem>
6458
6459	<listitem>
6460	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6461	</listitem>
6462
6463	<listitem>
6464	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6465	</listitem>
6466
6467	<listitem>
6468	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6473	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6474	</listitem>
6475
6476	<listitem>
6477	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6486	</listitem>
6487
6488	<listitem>
6489	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6490	</listitem>
6491
6492	<listitem>
6493	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6494	</listitem>
6495
6496	<listitem>
6497	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6498	</listitem>
6499
6500	<listitem>
6501	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6502	</listitem>
6503
6504	<listitem>
6505	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6506	</listitem>
6507
6508	<listitem>
6509	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6510	</listitem>
6511
6512	<listitem>
6513	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6514	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6515	</listitem>
6516
6517	<listitem>
6518	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	<listitem>
6526	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6527	</listitem>
6528
6529	<listitem>
6530	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6535	</listitem>
6536
6537	<listitem>
6538	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6539	</listitem>
6540
6541	<listitem>
6542	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	<listitem>
6546	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6547	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6548	</listitem>
6549
6550	<listitem>
6551	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6552	</listitem>
6553
6554	<listitem>
6555	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6556	</listitem>
6557
6558	<listitem>
6559	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6564	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6569	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6574	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6575	</listitem>
6576
6577	<listitem>
6578	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6579	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6584	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6585	</listitem>
6586
6587	<listitem>
6588	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6597	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6602	guest property lookup</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6607	basic network information)</para>
6608	</listitem>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6612	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	<listitem>
6616	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6617	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6618	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6619	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6624	</listitem>
6625
6626	<listitem>
6627	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6628	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6629	web service</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6634	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6639	unavailable</para>
6640	</listitem>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6644	</listitem>
6645
6646	</itemizedlist>
6647	</sect1>
6648
6649	<sect1>
6650	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6651
6652	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6653	added:</para>
6654
6655	<itemizedlist>
6656
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6659	installation</para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6664	</listitem>
6665
6666	<listitem>
6667	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6668	later (bug #3981)</para>
6669	</listitem>
6670
6671	<listitem>
6672	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6673	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6678	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6679	(bug #4034)
6680	</para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6685	networking</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6690	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6695	clicks</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6700	Windows 7 guests</para>
6701	</listitem>
6702
6703	<listitem>
6704	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6705	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6706	</listitem>
6707
6708	<listitem>
6709	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6710	</listitem>
6711
6712	<listitem>
6713	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6718	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6723	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6724	</listitem>
6725
6726	<listitem>
6727	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6736	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6737	(bug #3864)</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6742	now flushes the output stream</para>
6743	</listitem>
6744
6745	<listitem>
6746	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6747	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6748	</listitem>
6749
6750	<listitem>
6751	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6752	</listitem>
6753
6754	<listitem>
6755	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6756	</listitem>
6757
6758	<listitem>
6759	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6760	</listitem>
6761
6762	<listitem>
6763	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6768	(bug #3964)</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6773	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6778	hosts</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	<listitem>
6782	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6783	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6784	e1000 adapter</para>
6785	</listitem>
6786
6787	<listitem>
6788	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6789	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6790	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6791	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6792	</listitem>
6793
6794	<listitem>
6795	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6796	</listitem>
6797
6798	<listitem>
6799	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6800	</listitem>
6801
6802	<listitem>
6803	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6804	</listitem>
6805
6806	<listitem>
6807	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6808	file (bug #1023)</para>
6809	</listitem>
6810
6811	<listitem>
6812	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6813	</listitem>
6814
6815	<listitem>
6816	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6817	</listitem>
6818
6819	</itemizedlist>
6820	</sect1>
6821
6822	<sect1>
6823	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6824
6825	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6826	added:</para>
6827
6828	<itemizedlist>
6829
6830	<listitem>
6831	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6832	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6833	</listitem>
6834
6835	<listitem>
6836	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6837	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6838	and later</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6843	running services</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6848	terminates</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6853	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6858	installed on the guest</para>
6859	</listitem>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6863	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6868	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6873	(bug #2628)</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6878	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6883	(bug #3657)</para>
6884	</listitem>
6885
6886	<listitem>
6887	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6888	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6889	</listitem>
6890
6891	<listitem>
6892	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6893	virtualization only)
6894	</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6899	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6900	</listitem>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6908	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6913	bug #3689)</para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6918	bug #3679)</para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6923	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6928	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6929	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6934	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6939	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6940	</listitem>
6941
6942	<listitem>
6943	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6944	(bug #3667)</para>
6945	</listitem>
6946
6947	<listitem>
6948	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6949	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6954	</listitem>
6955
6956	<listitem>
6957	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6958	</listitem>
6959
6960	<listitem>
6961	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6962	</listitem>
6963
6964	<listitem>
6965	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6966	</listitem>
6967
6968	<listitem>
6969	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6970	</listitem>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6974	</listitem>
6975
6976	<listitem>
6977	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6978	</listitem>
6979
6980	</itemizedlist>
6981	</sect1>
6982
6983	<sect1>
6984	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6985
6986	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6987	were added:</para>
6988
6989	<itemizedlist>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6997	</listitem>
6998
6999	<listitem>
7000	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	<listitem>
7008	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
7009	</listitem>
7010
7011	<listitem>
7012	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
7013	</listitem>
7014
7015	<listitem>
7016	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
7017	</listitem>
7018
7019	<listitem>
7020	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7021	</listitem>
7022
7023	<listitem>
7024	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7025	</listitem>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7029	</listitem>
7030
7031	</itemizedlist>
7032
7033	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7034
7035	<itemizedlist>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7051	</listitem>
7052
7053	<listitem>
7054	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7055	</listitem>
7056
7057	<listitem>
7058	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7059	</listitem>
7060
7061	<listitem>
7062	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7063	</listitem>
7064
7065	<listitem>
7066	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7067	</listitem>
7068
7069	<listitem>
7070	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7071	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7072	</listitem>
7073
7074	<listitem>
7075	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7080	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7081	</listitem>
7082
7083	<listitem>
7084	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7085	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7086	</listitem>
7087
7088	<listitem>
7089	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7090	</listitem>
7091
7092	<listitem>
7093	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7098	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7099	</listitem>
7100
7101	<listitem>
7102	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7103	</listitem>
7104
7105	<listitem>
7106	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7107	ESX server images)</para>
7108	</listitem>
7109
7110	<listitem>
7111	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7112	writable</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7117	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7118	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7119	</listitem>
7120
7121	<listitem>
7122	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7123	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7128	</listitem>
7129
7130	<listitem>
7131	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7132	</listitem>
7133
7134	<listitem>
7135	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7136	hosts when creating files</para>
7137	</listitem>
7138
7139	<listitem>
7140	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7141	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7142	</listitem>
7143
7144	<listitem>
7145	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7146	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7147	#2306)</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7152	(bug #3555)</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7157	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7162	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7167	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7172	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7173	</listitem>
7174
7175	<listitem>
7176	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7177	(bug #3586)</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7182	from Scratch systems</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7187	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7188	</listitem>
7189
7190	<listitem>
7191	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7196	default to compact format</para>
7197	</listitem>
7198
7199	<listitem>
7200	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7201	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7202	</listitem>
7203
7204	<listitem>
7205	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7206	</listitem>
7207
7208	<listitem>
7209	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7210	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7211	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7212	</listitem>
7213
7214	<listitem>
7215	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7216	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7217	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7222	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7227	</listitem>
7228
7229	<listitem>
7230	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7231	</listitem>
7232
7233	<listitem>
7234	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7235	</listitem>
7236
7237	<listitem>
7238	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7239	</listitem>
7240
7241	<listitem>
7242	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7243	</listitem>
7244
7245	<listitem>
7246	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7247	</listitem>
7248
7249	<listitem>
7250	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7251	</listitem>
7252
7253	<listitem>
7254	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7255	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7256	</listitem>
7257
7258	<listitem>
7259	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7264	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7281	#2536)</para>
7282	</listitem>
7283
7284	<listitem>
7285	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7286	</listitem>
7287
7288	<listitem>
7289	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7290	(bug #3548)</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	</itemizedlist>
7294	</sect1>
7295
7296	<sect1>
7297	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7298
7299	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7300	added:</para>
7301
7302	<itemizedlist>
7303
7304	<listitem>
7305	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7306	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7307	</listitem>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7311	</listitem>
7312
7313	<listitem>
7314	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7315	</listitem>
7316
7317	<listitem>
7318	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7319	</listitem>
7320
7321	<listitem>
7322	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7323	(bug #3115)</para>
7324	</listitem>
7325
7326	<listitem>
7327	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7328	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7329	</listitem>
7330
7331	<listitem>
7332	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7333	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7334	(bug #3215)</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7339	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7344	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7345	</listitem>
7346
7347	<listitem>
7348	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7349	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7350	</listitem>
7351
7352	<listitem>
7353	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7354	in parallel</para>
7355	</listitem>
7356
7357	<listitem>
7358	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7359	</listitem>
7360
7361	<listitem>
7362	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7363	</listitem>
7364
7365	<listitem>
7366	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7367	</listitem>
7368
7369	<listitem>
7370	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7371	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7372	</listitem>
7373
7374	<listitem>
7375	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7380	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7381	</listitem>
7382
7383	<listitem>
7384	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7385	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7386	</listitem>
7387
7388	<listitem>
7389	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	<listitem>
7393	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7394	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7395	</listitem>
7396
7397	<listitem>
7398	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7399	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7400	</listitem>
7401
7402	<listitem>
7403	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7404	</listitem>
7405
7406	<listitem>
7407	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7412	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7417	</listitem>
7418
7419	<listitem>
7420	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7421	</listitem>
7422
7423	<listitem>
7424	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7425	</listitem>
7426
7427	<listitem>
7428	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7429	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7430	</listitem>
7431
7432	<listitem>
7433	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7434	</listitem>
7435
7436	<listitem>
7437	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7438	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7439	</listitem>
7440
7441	<listitem>
7442	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7443	</listitem>
7444
7445	<listitem>
7446	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7451	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7452	</listitem>
7453
7454	<listitem>
7455	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7456	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7457	</listitem>
7458
7459	<listitem>
7460	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7465	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7466	</listitem>
7467
7468	<listitem>
7469	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7470	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7471	</listitem>
7472
7473	<listitem>
7474	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7475	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	<listitem>
7479	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7480	(bug #3213)</para>
7481	</listitem>
7482
7483	<listitem>
7484	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7485	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7486	</listitem>
7487
7488	<listitem>
7489	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7490	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7491	</listitem>
7492
7493	</itemizedlist>
7494	</sect1>
7495
7496	<sect1>
7497	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7498
7499	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7500	added:</para>
7501
7502	<itemizedlist>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7506	</listitem>
7507
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7530	</listitem>
7531
7532	<listitem>
7533	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7534	</listitem>
7535
7536	<listitem>
7537	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7538	</listitem>
7539
7540	<listitem>
7541	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7542	</listitem>
7543
7544	<listitem>
7545	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7546	</listitem>
7547
7548	<listitem>
7549	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7550	</listitem>
7551
7552	<listitem>
7553	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7554	</listitem>
7555
7556	<listitem>
7557	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7558	</listitem>
7559
7560	<listitem>
7561	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7562	</listitem>
7563
7564	<listitem>
7565	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7570	(bug #3067)</para>
7571	</listitem>
7572
7573	<listitem>
7574	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7575	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7576	</listitem>
7577
7578	<listitem>
7579	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7580	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7581	</listitem>
7582
7583	<listitem>
7584	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7585	</listitem>
7586
7587	<listitem>
7588	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7589	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7590	</listitem>
7591
7592	<listitem>
7593	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7594	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7595	</listitem>
7596
7597	<listitem>
7598	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7603	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7604	</listitem>
7605
7606	<listitem>
7607	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	<listitem>
7611	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7612	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7613	</listitem>
7614
7615	<listitem>
7616	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7617	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7618	</listitem>
7619
7620	<listitem>
7621	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7622	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7623	</para>
7624	</listitem>
7625
7626	<listitem>
7627	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7628	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7629	</para>
7630	</listitem>
7631
7632	<listitem>
7633	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7634	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7635	</para>
7636	</listitem>
7637
7638	<listitem>
7639	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7640	</listitem>
7641
7642	<listitem>
7643	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7644	</listitem>
7645
7646	<listitem>
7647	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7648	</listitem>
7649
7650	<listitem>
7651	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7656	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7657	</listitem>
7658
7659	<listitem>
7660	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7661	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7662	</listitem>
7663
7664	<listitem>
7665	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7666	formatting a drive</para>
7667	</listitem>
7668
7669	<listitem>
7670	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7675	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7688	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7689	</listitem>
7690
7691	<listitem>
7692	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7693	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7694	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7699	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7704	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7705	</listitem>
7706
7707	<listitem>
7708	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7709	(bug #2768)</para>
7710	</listitem>
7711
7712	<listitem>
7713	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7714	</listitem>
7715
7716	<listitem>
7717	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7718	</listitem>
7719
7720	<listitem>
7721	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7722	single, unified package</para>
7723	</listitem>
7724
7725	<listitem>
7726	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7727	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7728	</listitem>
7729
7730	<listitem>
7731	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7732	</listitem>
7733
7734	<listitem>
7735	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7736	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7737	</listitem>
7738
7739	<listitem>
7740	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7741	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7742	</listitem>
7743
7744	<listitem>
7745	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7750	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7751	doing 3D</para>
7752	</listitem>
7753
7754	<listitem>
7755	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7760	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7761	</listitem>
7762
7763	<listitem>
7764	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7769	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7774	</listitem>
7775
7776	<listitem>
7777	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7778	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7779	</listitem>
7780
7781	<listitem>
7782	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7783	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7784	(bug #2938)</para>
7785	</listitem>
7786
7787	<listitem>
7788	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7789	Linux guests</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7794	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7795	(bug #1776)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7800	(bug #1612)</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7805	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7810	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	<listitem>
7814	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7815	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	</itemizedlist>
7819	</sect1>
7820
7821	<sect1>
7822	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7823
7824	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7825	were added:</para>
7826
7827	<itemizedlist>
7828	<listitem>
7829	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7830	</listitem>
7831
7832	<listitem>
7833	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7834	</listitem>
7835
7836	<listitem>
7837	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7838	</listitem>
7839
7840	<listitem>
7841	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7842	</listitem>
7843
7844	<listitem>
7845	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7846	</listitem>
7847
7848	<listitem>
7849	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7854	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7855	</listitem>
7856
7857	<listitem>
7858	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7859	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7860	</listitem>
7861
7862	</itemizedlist>
7863
7864	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7865
7866	<itemizedlist>
7867	<listitem>
7868	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7869	</listitem>
7870
7871	<listitem>
7872	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7873	</listitem>
7874
7875	<listitem>
7876	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7877	</listitem>
7878
7879	<listitem>
7880	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7885	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7890	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7891	</listitem>
7892
7893	<listitem>
7894	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7895	</listitem>
7896
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7899	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7900	</listitem>
7901
7902	<listitem>
7903	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7904	</listitem>
7905
7906	<listitem>
7907	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7908	</listitem>
7909
7910	<listitem>
7911	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7912	</listitem>
7913
7914	<listitem>
7915	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7916	</listitem>
7917
7918	<listitem>
7919	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7920	</listitem>
7921
7922	<listitem>
7923	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7924	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7925	</listitem>
7926
7927	<listitem>
7928	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7929	the compiz window manager</para>
7930	</listitem>
7931
7932	<listitem>
7933	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7934	</listitem>
7935
7936	<listitem>
7937	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7938	</listitem>
7939
7940	<listitem>
7941	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7942	</listitem>
7943
7944	<listitem>
7945	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7946	</listitem>
7947
7948	<listitem>
7949	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7954	</listitem>
7955
7956	<listitem>
7957	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7958	</listitem>
7959
7960	<listitem>
7961	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7962	</listitem>
7963
7964	<listitem>
7965	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7966	</listitem>
7967
7968	<listitem>
7969	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7970	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7971	</listitem>
7972
7973	<listitem>
7974	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7975	for direct device access</para>
7976	</listitem>
7977
7978	<listitem>
7979	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7984	</listitem>
7985
7986	<listitem>
7987	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7988	</listitem>
7989
7990	<listitem>
7991	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7992	</listitem>
7993
7994	<listitem>
7995	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7996	</listitem>
7997
7998	<listitem>
7999	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
8004	</listitem>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
8008	</listitem>
8009
8010	</itemizedlist>
8011	</sect1>
8012
8013	<sect1>
8014	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
8015
8016	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8017	added:</para>
8018
8019	<itemizedlist>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8023	states/snapshots</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8028	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8033	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8034	</listitem>
8035
8036	<listitem>
8037	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8038	collisions</para>
8039	</listitem>
8040
8041	<listitem>
8042	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8043	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8044	</listitem>
8045
8046	<listitem>
8047	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8052	reliably</para>
8053	</listitem>
8054
8055	<listitem>
8056	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8057	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8058	</listitem>
8059
8060	<listitem>
8061	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8062	a reboot</para>
8063	</listitem>
8064
8065	<listitem>
8066	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8067	</listitem>
8068
8069	<listitem>
8070	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8071	in parallel</para>
8072	</listitem>
8073
8074	<listitem>
8075	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8076	</listitem>
8077
8078	<listitem>
8079	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8080	correctly</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	<listitem>
8084	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8085	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	</itemizedlist>
8089	</sect1>
8090
8091	<sect1>
8092	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8093
8094	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8095	added:</para>
8096
8097	<itemizedlist>
8098
8099	<listitem>
8100	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8101	(bug #2220)</para>
8102	</listitem>
8103
8104	<listitem>
8105	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8106	</listitem>
8107
8108	<listitem>
8109	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8114	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8119	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8120	</listitem>
8121
8122	<listitem>
8123	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8124	(bug #2624)</para>
8125	</listitem>
8126
8127	<listitem>
8128	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8129	(bug #2024)</para>
8130	</listitem>
8131
8132	<listitem>
8133	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8134	</listitem>
8135
8136	<listitem>
8137	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8138	</listitem>
8139
8140	<listitem>
8141	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8142	</listitem>
8143
8144	<listitem>
8145	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8146	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8147	</listitem>
8148
8149	<listitem>
8150	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8151	applications when updating the installation</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8156	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8157	</listitem>
8158
8159	<listitem>
8160	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8161	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8162	</listitem>
8163
8164	<listitem>
8165	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8166	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8167	</listitem>
8168
8169	<listitem>
8170	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8171	connected to a host device</para>
8172	</listitem>
8173
8174	<listitem>
8175	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8176	</listitem>
8177
8178	<listitem>
8179	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8180	</listitem>
8181
8182	<listitem>
8183	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8188	when using native RDP connections</para>
8189	</listitem>
8190
8191	<listitem>
8192	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8193	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8194	</listitem>
8195
8196	<listitem>
8197	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8198	(bug #2591)</para>
8199	</listitem>
8200
8201	<listitem>
8202	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8203	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8204	</listitem>
8205
8206	<listitem>
8207	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8208	</listitem>
8209
8210	</itemizedlist>
8211	</sect1>
8212
8213	<sect1>
8214	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8215
8216	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8217	added:</para>
8218
8219	<itemizedlist>
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8226	</listitem>
8227
8228	<listitem>
8229	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8230	</listitem>
8231
8232	<listitem>
8233	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8234	</listitem>
8235
8236	<listitem>
8237	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8238	</listitem>
8239
8240	<listitem>
8241	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8242	</listitem>
8243
8244	<listitem>
8245	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8246	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8247	</listitem>
8248
8249	<listitem>
8250	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8251	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8252	</listitem>
8253
8254	<listitem>
8255	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8256	</listitem>
8257
8258	<listitem>
8259	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8260	equal to the client resolution</para>
8261	</listitem>
8262
8263	<listitem>
8264	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8265	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8266	</listitem>
8267
8268	<listitem>
8269	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8270	</listitem>
8271
8272	<listitem>
8273	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8274	</listitem>
8275
8276	<listitem>
8277	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8278	</listitem>
8279
8280	<listitem>
8281	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8282	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8287	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8288	</listitem>
8289
8290	<listitem>
8291	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8292	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8293	</listitem>
8294
8295	<listitem>
8296	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8297	</listitem>
8298
8299	<listitem>
8300	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8301	</listitem>
8302
8303	<listitem>
8304	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8305	</listitem>
8306
8307	<listitem>
8308	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8309	</listitem>
8310
8311	<listitem>
8312	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8313	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8314	</listitem>
8315
8316	<listitem>
8317	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8318	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8319	</listitem>
8320
8321	<listitem>
8322	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8323	</listitem>
8324
8325	<listitem>
8326	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8327	</listitem>
8328
8329	<listitem>
8330	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8331	</listitem>
8332
8333	</itemizedlist>
8334
8335	</sect1>
8336
8337	<sect1>
8338	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8339
8340	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8341	added:</para>
8342
8343	<itemizedlist>
8344
8345	<listitem>
8346	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8347	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8348	</listitem>
8349
8350	<listitem>
8351	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8352	</listitem>
8353
8354	<listitem>
8355	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8356	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8357	</listitem>
8358
8359	<listitem>
8360	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8361	</listitem>
8362
8363	<listitem>
8364	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8365	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8366	</listitem>
8367
8368	<listitem>
8369	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8370	</listitem>
8371
8372	<listitem>
8373	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8374	the virtual disk manager</para>
8375	</listitem>
8376
8377	<listitem>
8378	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8379	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8380	</listitem>
8381
8382	<listitem>
8383	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8384	</listitem>
8385
8386	<listitem>
8387	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8388	</listitem>
8389
8390	<listitem>
8391	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8392	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8393	</listitem>
8394
8395	<listitem>
8396	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8397	bug #2067)</para>
8398	</listitem>
8399
8400	<listitem>
8401	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8402	</listitem>
8403
8404	<listitem>
8405	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8406	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8407	</listitem>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8411	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8412	(bug #2184)</para>
8413	</listitem>
8414
8415	<listitem>
8416	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8417	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8418	</listitem>
8419
8420	<listitem>
8421	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8422	(Windows guests only)</para>
8423	</listitem>
8424
8425	<listitem>
8426	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8427	</listitem>
8428
8429	<listitem>
8430	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8431	</listitem>
8432
8433	<listitem>
8434	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8435	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8436	</listitem>
8437
8438	<listitem>
8439	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8440	</listitem>
8441
8442	<listitem>
8443	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8444	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8445	</para>
8446	</listitem>
8447
8448	<listitem>
8449	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8450	</listitem>
8451
8452	<listitem>
8453	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8454	</listitem>
8455
8456	<listitem>
8457	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8458	a VM reboot</para>
8459	</listitem>
8460
8461	<listitem>
8462	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8467	buggy X servers</para>
8468	</listitem>
8469
8470	<listitem>
8471	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8472	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8481	(bug #2128)</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8486	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8487	</listitem>
8488
8489	<listitem>
8490	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8491	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8496	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8497	</listitem>
8498
8499	<listitem>
8500	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8501	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8502	</listitem>
8503
8504	<listitem>
8505	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8506	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8507	</listitem>
8508
8509	<listitem>
8510	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8511	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8512	</listitem>
8513
8514	<listitem>
8515	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8516	installer into a single package</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8521	port to the guest
8522	</para>
8523	</listitem>
8524
8525	</itemizedlist>
8526
8527	</sect1>
8528
8529	<sect1>
8530	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8531
8532	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8533	were added:<itemizedlist>
8534
8535	<listitem>
8536	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8537	</listitem>
8538
8539	<listitem>
8540	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8541	</listitem>
8542
8543	<listitem>
8544	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8545	</listitem>
8546
8547	<listitem>
8548	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8549	</listitem>
8550
8551	<listitem>
8552	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8553	</listitem>
8554
8555	<listitem>
8556	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8557	</listitem>
8558
8559	<listitem>
8560	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8561	</listitem>
8562
8563	<listitem>
8564	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8565	</listitem>
8566
8567	<listitem>
8568	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8569	</listitem>
8570
8571	<listitem>
8572	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8573	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8574	</listitem>
8575
8576	<listitem>
8577	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8578	</listitem>
8579
8580	<listitem>
8581	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8582	</listitem>
8583
8584	<listitem>
8585	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8586	</listitem>
8587
8588	</itemizedlist></para>
8589
8590	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8591
8592	<itemizedlist>
8593
8594	<listitem>
8595	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8596	</listitem>
8597
8598	<listitem>
8599	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8600	</listitem>
8601
8602	<listitem>
8603	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8604	</listitem>
8605
8606	<listitem>
8607	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8608	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8609	</listitem>
8610
8611	<listitem>
8612	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8613	restored</para>
8614	</listitem>
8615
8616	<listitem>
8617	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8618	</listitem>
8619
8620	<listitem>
8621	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8622	</listitem>
8623
8624	<listitem>
8625	<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>
8626	</listitem>
8627
8628	</itemizedlist>
8629
8630	</sect1>
8631

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