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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.3.0 Beta 2 (2013-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 and the AMD-V code including
13	many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays
18	used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)</para>
19	</listitem>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences
23	extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for
24	VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
33	hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
50	session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
51	</listitem>
52
53	<listitem>
54	<para>Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	<listitem>
58	<para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
59	attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
60	service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
61	</para>
62	</listitem>
63
64	</itemizedlist>
65
66	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
67
68	<itemizedlist>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC
72	enabled</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x
77	guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
78	</listitem>
79
80	<listitem>
81	<para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
82	</listitem>
83
84	<listitem>
85	<para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
102	emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
107	transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
112	to change existing media geometry)
113	</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
118	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
123	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
128	by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
133	native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
138	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
143	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
144	option to show really all available details</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
149	the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
154	processes and/or guest files via
155	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes\|files></computeroutput>
156	</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
161	<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>\|
162	--session-name <name or pattern>\|--all</computeroutput>
163	</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
168	<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill\|close\|terminate --session-id <ID>\|
169	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
170	or
171	<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>\|
172	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
173	</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
178	<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
179	</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
196	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
201	by François Revol</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
206	hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
211	(bug #11962)</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
216	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
221	with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Windows guests: ability to track guest user idle times through
226	the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	</itemizedlist>
230
231	</sect1>
232
233	<sect1>
234	<title>Version 4.2.16 (2013-07-04)</title>
235
236	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
237	added:</para>
238
239	<itemizedlist>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression;
243	bug #11895)</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off
248	after a Guru Mediation</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to
253	the VM</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive
258	attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)</para>
279	</listitem>
280
281	<listitem>
282	<para>Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with
283	<emphasis>VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool</emphasis>, remove it from the
284	<emphasis>pkgutil --pkgs</emphasis> list as well</para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	</itemizedlist>
288	</sect1>
289
290	<sect1>
291	<title>Version 4.2.14 (2013-06-21)</title>
292
293	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
294	added:</para>
295
296	<itemizedlist>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression;
304	bug #11674)</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows
313	hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the
322	server) if the VM is paused</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM
327	with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain
332	devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table
341	(fixes NetWare 6.x guests)</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	<listitem>
345	<para>BIOS: don't use the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> / <emphasis>LEAVE</emphasis>
346	instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by
347	certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>DMI: allow to configure <emphasis>DmiChassisType</emphasis>
352	(bug #11832)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and
357	asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by
362	Windows 8 (bug #11502)</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels
367	disk images (bug #9617)</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>3D: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	<listitem>
375	<para>3D: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older
376	versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	<listitem>
380	<para>Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running
381	VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
382	(bug #11765)</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties
387	persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call
396	<emphasis>Appliance::interpret()</emphasis> (bug #10845)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file
401	name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references
406	(bug #10689)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
415	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using
420	<emphasis>sethdparentuuid</emphasis></para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	<listitem>
424	<para>Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of
425	automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
426	(bug #11610)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate
431	in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the
432	<emphasis>--silent</emphasis> command line option is specified</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the
437	unattended case</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button
442	in seamless mode for some themes</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon
451	credentials if current ones were not processed yet</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>Windows Additions installer: added the <emphasis>/with_wddm</emphasis>
456	switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in
461	information label of the lightdm greeter</para>
462	</listitem>
463
464	<listitem>
465	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu
466	kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel
467	build fix; bug #11709)</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in
472	drag'and'drop mode</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two
481	guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>Guest Additions: fixed guest process timeout / kill handling</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	</itemizedlist>
489	</sect1>
490
491	<sect1>
492	<title>Version 4.2.12 (2013-04-12)</title>
493
494	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
495	added:</para>
496
497	<itemizedlist>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if
501	nested paging is disabled</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain
514	disabled on visual-mode change</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging
519	in different visual-modes</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless
524	screens were represented by fullscreen windows</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen
529	configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should
534	have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on
539	content/window resize</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration
548	if the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle
553	partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size
558	changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)</para>
559	</listitem>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts
563	due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate
568	after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4):
573	corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect
578	time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back
579	to Jan 1 1970</para>
580	</listitem>
581
582	<listitem>
583	<para>Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software
584	RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created
589	and the VM was running before</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>controlvm nicpromisc</emphasis>
594	(bug #11423)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
599	guestmemoryballoon</emphasis> of the VM isn't running (bug #11639)</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would
604	affect all clients (bug #11644)</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated
609	by guest commands and do NLS conversion</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer
614	kernels if the <emphasis>CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS</emphasis>
615	config option is enabled (bug #11664)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based
620	guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile
629	fix (bug #11634)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using
634	LightDM as the display manager</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable
639	of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
640	(bug #6118)</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	</itemizedlist>
648
649	</sect1>
650
651	<sect1>
652	<title>Version 4.2.10 (2013-03-05)</title>
653
654	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
655	added:</para>
656
657	<itemizedlist>
658
659	<listitem>
660	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain
665	conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for
670	example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not
675	currently active</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with
680	Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified
685	with <emphasis>export --eulafile (bug #11528)</emphasis></para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders
694	guest kernel module (bug #11390)</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is
699	not available (bug #8638)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	</itemizedlist>
707	</sect1>
708
709	<sect1>
710	<title>Version 4.2.8 (2013-02-20)</title>
711
712	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
713	added:</para>
714
715	<itemizedlist>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>VMM: fixed a guest crash with a huge amount of guest RAM on
719	VT-x hosts (bug #11306)</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog
724	(bug #10982)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account
729	during the language switch (bug #11342)</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>GUI: the <emphasis>take guest screenshot</emphasis> dialog sometimes
734	had no keyboard input available on Windows host</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>Main/Machine: fix the generation of a spurious event for inaccessible
739	VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation
740	with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression; bug
741	#11323)</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain
746	conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for
751	active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated
752	when the associated metric is enabled via <emphasis>setupMetrics</emphasis></para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under
757	certain conditions</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under
762	certain circumstances (bug #11344)</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
767	(4.2.6 regression, bug #11359)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	<listitem>
771	<para>Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI
772	targets</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	<listitem>
776	<para>Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with
777	Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
778	</listitem>
779
780	<listitem>
781	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation
782	for IPv6 (bug #9380)</para>
783	</listitem>
784
785	<listitem>
786	<para>3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings
791	file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash during <emphasis>screenshotpng</emphasis>
800	if there is no display (bug #11363)</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong
805	kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux
806	host kernel (bug #11035)</para>
807	</listitem>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module
811	load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox
820	kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100%
825	when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from
830	a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
831	</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed
836	via guest control</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
841	(bug #10970)</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with
846	large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions
855	(bug #10987)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv
860	for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with
865	X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	</itemizedlist>
869
870	</sect1>
871
872	<sect1>
873	<title>Version 4.2.6 (2012-12-19)</title>
874
875	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
876	added:</para>
877
878	<itemizedlist>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
882	(bug #11256)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable <emphasis>MONITOR</emphasis>
887	only for certain CPUs (bug #9460)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers
892	(4.2.0 regression)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts
897	(4.2.0 regression)</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
902	(bug #11095)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead
919	to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>3D Support: several fixes</para>
928	</listitem>
929
930	<listitem>
931	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
932	(bug #11156)</para>
933	</listitem>
934
935	<listitem>
936	<para>VGA: fix for double scan text modes</para>
937	</listitem>
938
939	<listitem>
940	<para>USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service
941	of <emphasis>DEVICE POWER</emphasis> requests (Windows hosts only;
942	bugs #10021, #11056)</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM
959	settings (4.2.0 regression)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters
964	in Session Information dialog (GUI)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>network rate</emphasis> and
969	<emphasis>disk usage</emphasis> metrics</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>BIOS: fix for El Torito</para>
978	</listitem>
979
980	<listitem>
981	<para>Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does
982	not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent
983	inconsitent saved states (bug #11147)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images</para>
988	</listitem>
989
990	<listitem>
991	<para>VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot
992	information</para>
993	</listitem>
994
995	<listitem>
996	<para>VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all
997	places dealing with media</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings
1002	file when doing <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> (bug #11212)</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>VBoxManage: <emphasis>metrics collect</emphasis> now properly handles
1007	<computeroutput>'CPU/MHz'</computeroutput> and
1008	<computeroutput>'Net/*/LinkSpeed'</computeroutput> metrics</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of
1013	<emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> works now in all safe cases</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>storageattach --medium additions</emphasis>
1018	as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware
1023	products (bug #10905)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking
1028	connections in conntrack (bug #11178)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the
1033	vminfo service of VBoxService</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain
1038	conditions (bug #11291)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories
1047	are reachable when starting VBox services</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations,
1052	thanks to all contributors!</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8</para>
1057	</listitem>
1058
1059	<listitem>
1060	<para>Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not
1061	available</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000
1066	guests (bug #11253)</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072	</itemizedlist>
1073
1074	</sect1>
1075
1076	<sect1>
1077	<title>Version 4.2.4 (2012-10-26)</title>
1078
1079	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1080	added:</para>
1081
1082	<itemizedlist>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
1086	(4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain
1091	conditions (OS X hosts only)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of
1096	ballooning module</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the
1101	guest (bug #11082)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)</para>
1106	</listitem>
1107
1108	<listitem>
1109	<para>BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty
1118	error (Windows hosts only)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	</itemizedlist>
1130	</sect1>
1131
1132	<sect1>
1133	<title>Version 4.2.2 (2012-10-18)</title>
1134
1135	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1136	added:</para>
1137
1138	<itemizedlist>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)</para>
1142	</listitem>
1143
1144	<listitem>
1145	<para>GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)</para>
1146	</listitem>
1147
1148	<listitem>
1149	<para>GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association
1154	(4.2 regression)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the
1159	first VM was created (bug #10928)</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are
1164	full children list of the same group already</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>GUI: added menu for runtime drag-and-drop option change</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change</para>
1173	</listitem>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering fullscreen-mode
1177	on Win host (bug #11051)</para>
1178	</listitem>
1179
1180	<listitem>
1181	<para>GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons</para>
1182	</listitem>
1183
1184	<listitem>
1185	<para>3D Support: <emphasis>DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP</emphasis> implementation
1186	fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929) </para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests
1191	where cancelled with asynchronous I/O disabled</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
1196	(bug #10898)</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only;
1201	bug #10128)</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is
1206	set to some unusual loopback value (bug #10864)</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers
1211	(4.2 regression; bugs #10936, #10969, #10980)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs
1220	are available</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot
1225	device after a warm reboot</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border
1230	color</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
1239	(bug #10973)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VBoxManage: fixed parsing of <emphasis>storageattach --discard</emphasis>
1244	(bug #11023)</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
1249	(bug #11065)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a
1254	guest process via guest control</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a
1263	machine was reset after a crash</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with
1276	old guest kernels</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
1281	(bug #10964)</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize
1286	issue for NT4 guests</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic</para>
1295	</listitem>
1296
1297	<listitem>
1298	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after
1299	all VMs started</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	</itemizedlist>
1307
1308	</sect1>
1309
1310	<sect1>
1311
1312	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
1313
1314	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
1315	were added:</para>
1316
1317	<itemizedlist>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
1333	</listitem>
1334
1335	<listitem>
1336	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
1337	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
1342	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
1347	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
1352	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
1353	planned. (bug #81)</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
1362	documentation for more information</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	</itemizedlist>
1366
1367	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1368
1369	<itemizedlist>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
1373	on Mountain Lion</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
1378	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
1379	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
1384	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
1389	nested paging</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
1394	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	<listitem>
1398	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
1399	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
1400	</listitem>
1401
1402	<listitem>
1403	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
1404	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
1409	</listitem>
1410
1411	<listitem>
1412	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
1413	</listitem>
1414
1415	<listitem>
1416	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
1433	</listitem>
1434
1435	<listitem>
1436	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
1441	guests</para>
1442	</listitem>
1443
1444	<listitem>
1445	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
1446	used ISO images</para>
1447	</listitem>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
1451	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
1452	</listitem>
1453
1454	<listitem>
1455	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
1456	(bug #9973)</para>
1457	</listitem>
1458
1459	<listitem>
1460	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
1461	(bug #9864)</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
1466	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
1467	immediately</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
1472	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
1477	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
1478	any time using the VM menu</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
1499	</listitem>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
1511	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
1520	support for v2 images)</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
1529	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
1542	VirtualBox update</para>
1543	</listitem>
1544
1545	<listitem>
1546	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
1547	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	</itemizedlist>
1555	</sect1>
1556
1557	<sect1>
1558	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
1559
1560	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1561	added:</para>
1562
1563	<itemizedlist>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
1567	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
1568	and others)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
1573	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
1578	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
1579	</listitem>
1580
1581	<listitem>
1582	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
1583	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
1584	</listitem>
1585
1586	<listitem>
1587	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
1588	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
1593	(bug #10631)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
1598	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
1599	(bug #10624)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
1608	updated (bug #9887)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	</itemizedlist>
1616	</sect1>
1617
1618	<sect1>
1619	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
1620
1621	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1622	added:</para>
1623
1624	<itemizedlist>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
1628	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
1633	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
1638	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
1639	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
1644	guests in rare cases</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
1649	</listitem>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
1653	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
1658	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
1659	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
1672	reason (bug #6189)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
1681	paused</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
1686	(bug #10267)</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
1695	(bug #10418)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
1700	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
1701	(bug #10581)</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
1706	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
1711	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
1712	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
1713	</listitem>
1714
1715	<listitem>
1716	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
1717	</listitem>
1718
1719	</itemizedlist>
1720
1721	</sect1>
1722
1723	<sect1>
1724	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
1725
1726	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1727	added:</para>
1728
1729	<itemizedlist>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
1733	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
1734	(bug #3783)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
1743	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>Windows Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	</itemizedlist>
1751
1752	</sect1>
1753
1754	<sect1>
1755	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
1756
1757	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1758	added:</para>
1759
1760	<itemizedlist>
1761
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
1764	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
1765	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
1770	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
1775	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
1788	4.1.10 regression)</para>
1789	</listitem>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
1797	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
1806	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
1811	4.1.10 regression)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
1816	closed (bug #6473)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
1821	properly installed</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	</itemizedlist>
1829	</sect1>
1830
1831	<sect1>
1832	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
1833
1834	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1835	added:</para>
1836
1837	<itemizedlist>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
1841	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
1846	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
1851	fusion</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
1856	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
1861	and network mask attributes</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
1866	(bug #10030)</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
1871	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
1884	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
1893	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
1898	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
1903	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
1932	in a zone</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
1941	(bug #9651)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
1950	#10010)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
1955	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
1960	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
1969	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
1974	(bug #10151)</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
1979	guests</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
1984	</listitem>
1985
1986	<listitem>
1987	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
1988	</listitem>
1989
1990	<listitem>
1991	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	</itemizedlist>
1995	</sect1>
1996
1997	<sect1>
1998	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
1999
2000	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2001	added:</para>
2002
2003	<itemizedlist>
2004
2005	<listitem>
2006	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
2007	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
2008	</listitem>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
2016	(bug #9642)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
2021	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
2022	</para>
2023	</listitem>
2024
2025	<listitem>
2026	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
2027	</listitem>
2028
2029	<listitem>
2030	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
2031	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
2032	</listitem>
2033
2034	<listitem>
2035	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
2036	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
2037	</listitem>
2038
2039	<listitem>
2040	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
2053	circumstances</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
2062	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
2067	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
2068	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
2069	and for 3D support in general</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
2086	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	</itemizedlist>
2090	</sect1>
2091
2092	<sect1>
2093	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
2094
2095	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2096	added:</para>
2097
2098	<itemizedlist>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
2106	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
2111	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
2116	certain guests</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
2125	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
2126	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
2131	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
2140	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
2149	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
2154	guests</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
2159	folders</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
2164	shared folders</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
2169	users and stale sessions</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
2174	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	</itemizedlist>
2178	</sect1>
2179
2180	<sect1>
2181	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
2182
2183	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2184	added:</para>
2185
2186	<itemizedlist>
2187
2188	<listitem>
2189	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
2190	bug #9458)</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
2195	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
2200	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
2205	</listitem>
2206
2207	<listitem>
2208	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
2209	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
2214	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
2215	</listitem>
2216
2217	<listitem>
2218	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
2219	(bug #9308)</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
2224	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	<listitem>
2228	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
2229	(bug #9503)</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
2234	(bug #9242)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
2239	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
2240	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
2249	images</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
2254	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
2259	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
2264	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
2269	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
2274	#9387)</para>
2275	</listitem>
2276
2277	<listitem>
2278	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
2279	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
2284	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
2289	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
2290	</listitem>
2291
2292	<listitem>
2293	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
2294	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
2307	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
2312	(bug #1578)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
2317	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
2322	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
2327	(bug #9535)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
2332	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
2337	help file (bug #9646)</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
2342	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	<listitem>
2346	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
2347	console window (bug #3549)</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
2352	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
2357	</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
2362	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
2363	</para>
2364	</listitem>
2365
2366	<listitem>
2367	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
2368	(bug #6229)
2369	</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
2374	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
2379	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
2384	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
2389	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
2394	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
2399	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
2404	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
2409	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	</itemizedlist>
2413	</sect1>
2414
2415	<sect1>
2416	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
2417
2418	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2419	added:</para>
2420
2421	<itemizedlist>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
2429	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
2438	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
2439	</listitem>
2440
2441	<listitem>
2442	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
2443	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
2444	</listitem>
2445
2446	<listitem>
2447	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
2448	a live snapshot</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
2453	due to a library version conflict</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
2458	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
2463	at a time by default</para>
2464	</listitem>
2465
2466	<listitem>
2467	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
2468	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
2469	#9368)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
2474	registered (bug #9303)</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
2479	VMs</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
2484	creation (bug #9379)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
2489	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
2490	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
2495	(bug #9308)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
2500	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
2509	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
2514	(bug #9242)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
2519	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
2524	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
2529	USB devices</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
2534	and warn about it</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
2543	</listitem>
2544
2545	<listitem>
2546	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
2547	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
2552	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
2557	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
2562	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
2567	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
2572	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
2577	2.6.37 and above</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	</itemizedlist>
2581	</sect1>
2582
2583	<sect1>
2584	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
2585
2586	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2587	were added:</para>
2588
2589	<itemizedlist>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
2593	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
2594	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
2607	bug #7822)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
2616	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
2621	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
2622	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
2623	anymore)</para>
2624	</listitem>
2625
2626	<listitem>
2627	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
2628	queried separately by the frontends</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
2633	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
2634	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
2635	</listitem>
2636
2637	<listitem>
2638	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
2639	</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
2644	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
2645	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
2650	with VBoxManage</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
2655	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658
2659	</itemizedlist>
2660
2661	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2662
2663	<itemizedlist>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
2679	of the current state</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
2684	</listitem>
2685
2686	<listitem>
2687	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
2688	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
2693	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
2694	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
2699	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
2712	dialog</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
2717	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
2718	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
2723	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
2728	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
2733	be a valid UUID</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
2738	twice in a VM configuration</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
2743	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
2744	cases</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
2749	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
2750	improve performance</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
2755	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
2756	on a temporary basis</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
2761	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
2762	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
2767	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
2772	images in VDI format</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
2777	VMDK format</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
2782	controller (bug #8592)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
2787	</listitem>
2788
2789	<listitem>
2790	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
2795	</listitem>
2796
2797	<listitem>
2798	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
2807	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
2812	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
2817	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
2822	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
2827	RDP clients</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
2836	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
2841	be more robust when connections fail</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
2846	simultaneously</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
2851	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
2852	location values in many places</para>
2853	</listitem>
2854
2855	<listitem>
2856	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
2861	builds</para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
2870	window (bug #4491)</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
2875	removing a VM</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
2888	166 and above)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
2893	hosts</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
2902	from the host</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	</itemizedlist>
2910
2911	</sect1>
2912
2913	<sect1>
2914	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
2915
2916	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2917	added:</para>
2918
2919	<itemizedlist>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
2927	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
2932	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
2937	a live snapshot</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
2942	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
2955	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
2960	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
2965	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
2970	</listitem>
2971
2972	<listitem>
2973	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
2974	images</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
2979	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
2983	registered (bug #9303)</para>
2984	</listitem>
2985
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
2988	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
2997	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
3002	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
3011	(bug #9370)</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
3016	(bug #9535)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
3021	(bug #1578)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
3026	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
3031	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
3032	</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
3037	</para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
3042	2.6.37 and above</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
3047	(bug #6229)</para>
3048	</listitem>
3049
3050	<listitem>
3051	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
3052	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	</itemizedlist>
3056	</sect1>
3057
3058	<sect1>
3059	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
3060
3061	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3062	added:</para>
3063
3064	<itemizedlist>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
3072	166 and above)</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
3077	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
3078	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
3083	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
3088	controller (bug #8592)</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
3097	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
3102	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
3107	builds</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	</itemizedlist>
3115	</sect1>
3116	<sect1>
3117	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
3118
3119	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3120	added:</para>
3121
3122	<itemizedlist>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
3126	</listitem>
3127
3128	<listitem>
3129	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
3130	</listitem>
3131
3132	<listitem>
3133	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
3134	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
3139	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
3144	</listitem>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
3148	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
3157	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
3162	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
3167	</listitem>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
3175	file was not written during export</para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
3192	binaries</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
3201	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
3206	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
3215	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	</itemizedlist>
3219	</sect1>
3220
3221	<sect1>
3222	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
3223
3224	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3225	added:</para>
3226
3227	<itemizedlist>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
3231	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
3236	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
3241	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
3246	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
3251	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
3256	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
3261	(Windows hosts only)</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
3266	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
3271	</listitem>
3272
3273	<listitem>
3274	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
3279	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
3284	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
3297	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
3302	(Windows hosts only)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
3307	window</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
3312	Fedora 15</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
3317	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
3322	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
3327	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
3336	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
3337	</listitem>
3338
3339	</itemizedlist>
3340	</sect1>
3341
3342	<sect1>
3343	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
3344
3345	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3346	added:</para>
3347
3348	<itemizedlist>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
3352	a VMM from a saved state</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
3357	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
3358	</listitem>
3359
3360	<listitem>
3361	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
3362	(bug #8006)</para>
3363	</listitem>
3364
3365	<listitem>
3366	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
3367	(bug #8726)</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
3380	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
3385	(bug #8469)</para>
3386	</listitem>
3387
3388	<listitem>
3389	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
3390	selectors</para>
3391	</listitem>
3392
3393	<listitem>
3394	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
3395	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
3396	</listitem>
3397
3398	<listitem>
3399	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
3400	folder (bug #8673)</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
3405	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
3414	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
3419	</listitem>
3420
3421	<listitem>
3422	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
3427	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
3432	I/O error occurred</para>
3433	</listitem>
3434
3435	<listitem>
3436	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
3437	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
3438	</listitem>
3439
3440	<listitem>
3441	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
3442	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
3447	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
3448	if no medium is present</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
3457	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
3462	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
3467	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
3476	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
3481	library (bug #8063)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
3486	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
3503	changed on import</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	<listitem>
3511	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
3512	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
3517	(bug #8593)</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
3522	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
3527	captured</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
3532	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
3537	</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
3542	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
3547	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
3552	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
3553	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
3558	to unkillable VM processes</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
3563	</listitem>
3564
3565	<listitem>
3566	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
3567	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
3572	on legacy Windows versions</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
3577	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
3598	(bug #7946)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	</itemizedlist>
3614
3615	</sect1>
3616
3617	<sect1>
3618	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
3619
3620	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3621	added:</para>
3622
3623	<itemizedlist>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
3627	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
3632	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
3637	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
3642	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
3647	number of host network interfaces</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
3652	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
3653	</listitem>
3654
3655	<listitem>
3656	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
3661	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
3666	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
3671	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
3680	(bug #6577)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
3685	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
3686	(bug #8235)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
3691	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
3692	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
3701	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
3706	</listitem>
3707
3708	<listitem>
3709	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
3710	(bug #7966)</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
3715	</listitem>
3716
3717	<listitem>
3718	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
3719	</listitem>
3720
3721	<listitem>
3722	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
3727	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
3740	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
3745	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
3754	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
3759	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
3760	(bug #8122)</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
3765	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
3778	(bug #1548)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
3787	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
3796	(bug #8231)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
3801	11.04 Alpha</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
3806	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
3811	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
3816	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
3821	with VBoxGINA</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	</itemizedlist>
3825
3826	</sect1>
3827
3828	<sect1>
3829	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
3830
3831	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3832	added:</para>
3833
3834	<itemizedlist>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
3838	settings vanished</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
3843	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
3848	created (bug #8031)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
3857	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
3862	an extension pack</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
3867	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
3876	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
3881	host-only interface</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
3886	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
3891	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
3896	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
3897	</listitem>
3898
3899	<listitem>
3900	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
3901	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
3906	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
3915	</listitem>
3916
3917	<listitem>
3918	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
3919	guests</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
3924	</listitem>
3925
3926	<listitem>
3927	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
3932	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
3937	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
3938	</listitem>
3939
3940	<listitem>
3941	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
3942	a VM start</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
3947	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
3952	(bug #6067)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
3957	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
3962	not saved to machine XML</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
3967	#7983)</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
3972	#7981)</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
3981	regression)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
3986	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
3987	</listitem>
3988
3989	<listitem>
3990	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
3991	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	</itemizedlist>
3995
3996	</sect1>
3997
3998	<sect1>
3999	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
4000
4001	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4002	were added:</para>
4003
4004	<itemizedlist>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
4016	<itemizedlist>
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
4035	states, and optionally including attached
4036	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
4037	can do the same now)</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	</itemizedlist>
4045	</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>New virtual hardware:
4054	<itemizedlist>
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
4057	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
4062	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064	</itemizedlist>
4065	</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
4070	<itemizedlist>
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
4077	</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
4082	now</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	</itemizedlist>
4090	</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
4095	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
4100	Parallels images</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
4109	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
4114	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	</itemizedlist>
4118
4119	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4120
4121	<itemizedlist>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
4125	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
4134	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
4139	(bug #1657)</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
4144	</listitem>
4145
4146	<listitem>
4147	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
4152	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
4157	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
4162	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
4163	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
4168	again (bug #6864)</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
4173	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
4178	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
4195	</listitem>
4196
4197	<listitem>
4198	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
4211	(bug #7058)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
4216	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
4221	circumstances</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
4226	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
4227	#5578)
4228	</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
4237	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
4238	</listitem>
4239
4240	<listitem>
4241	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
4246	#6760)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
4251	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
4256	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
4261	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
4270	file</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
4275	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	</itemizedlist>
4279
4280	</sect1>
4281
4282	<sect1>
4283	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
4284
4285	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4286	added:</para>
4287
4288	<itemizedlist>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
4292	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
4297	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
4298	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
4315	the VM is running</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
4320	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
4321	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
4322	starting from a saved state</para>
4323	</listitem>
4324
4325	<listitem>
4326	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
4347	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
4352	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
4357	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
4366	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
4367	</para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
4372	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
4373	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
4378	only)</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
4383	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
4400	state (bug #4124)</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
4405	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
4414	(bug #2996)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
4419	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
4428	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
4433	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
4438	user accounts for VM information</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	</itemizedlist>
4442
4443	</sect1>
4444
4445	<sect1>
4446	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
4447
4448	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4449	added:</para>
4450
4451	<itemizedlist>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
4455	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
4460	</listitem>
4461
4462	<listitem>
4463	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
4472	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
4477	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
4482	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
4483	</listitem>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
4487	(bug #4952)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
4492	bug #6122)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
4497	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
4502	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
4503	(Linux hosts only)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
4512	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
4517	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
4522	canceled</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
4539	</listitem>
4540
4541	<listitem>
4542	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
4543	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
4552	(Linux hosts only)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
4557	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
4566	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
4575	circumstances</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
4580	printers</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
4589	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
4594	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
4599	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
4600	circumstances</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
4605	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
4610	as supported extension</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
4615	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
4620	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
4629	(bug #7366)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
4638	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
4643	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
4644	</listitem>
4645
4646	<listitem>
4647	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
4648	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
4649	</listitem>
4650
4651	<listitem>
4652	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
4653	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
4654	</listitem>
4655
4656	<listitem>
4657	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
4658	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
4671	more than one environment variable</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
4676	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
4681	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
4682	</listitem>
4683
4684	<listitem>
4685	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
4686	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
4691	enumerating logged in users</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
4696	</listitem>
4697
4698	<listitem>
4699	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
4700	</listitem>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
4708	in the event of a VM crash</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
4717	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
4722	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
4727	(bug #7448)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	</itemizedlist>
4743
4744	</sect1>
4745
4746	<sect1>
4747	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</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: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
4756	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
4765	bug #6809)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
4778	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	<listitem>
4782	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
4783	changes</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
4792	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
4797	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
4806	</listitem>
4807
4808	<listitem>
4809	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
4818	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
4827	(bug #6832)</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
4832	guests</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
4837	</listitem>
4838
4839	<listitem>
4840	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
4841	without external tools and tricks</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
4846	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
4855	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
4860	shutdown</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
4865	fixes</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
4870	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
4871	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
4872	</para>
4873	</listitem>
4874
4875	<listitem>
4876	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
4877	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
4882	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
4887	</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	</itemizedlist>
4903
4904	</sect1>
4905
4906	<sect1>
4907	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
4908
4909	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4910	added:</para>
4911
4912	<itemizedlist>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
4916	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
4921	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
4926	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
4947	assigned</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
4952	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
4957	multiple screens are enabled</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
4962	</listitem>
4963
4964	<listitem>
4965	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
4966	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
4971	again (bug #7022).
4972	</para>
4973	</listitem>
4974
4975	<listitem>
4976	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
4977	(bug #6768)</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
4982	(bug #6927)</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
4987	bug #7031)</para>
4988	</listitem>
4989
4990	<listitem>
4991	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
4992	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
4997	bug #6987)</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
5006	</listitem>
5007
5008	<listitem>
5009	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
5010	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
5015	</listitem>
5016
5017	<listitem>
5018	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
5019	installation (bug #5101)</para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
5028	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
5029	bug #6872)</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
5038	(performance tweak)</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
5043	is currently paused</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
5048	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
5053	</listitem>
5054
5055	<listitem>
5056	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
5057	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
5062	not properly saved</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
5067	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
5076	</listitem>
5077
5078	<listitem>
5079	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
5084	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
5093	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
5094	</listitem>
5095
5096	<listitem>
5097	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
5098	(bug #5251)</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
5103	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
5108	</listitem>
5109
5110	<listitem>
5111	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
5116	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
5121	</listitem>
5122
5123	<listitem>
5124	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	</itemizedlist>
5132	</sect1>
5133
5134	<sect1>
5135	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
5136
5137	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5138	added:</para>
5139
5140	<itemizedlist>
5141
5142	<listitem>
5143	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
5144	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
5149	</listitem>
5150
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
5153	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
5154	</listitem>
5155
5156	<listitem>
5157	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
5158	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
5163	</listitem>
5164
5165	<listitem>
5166	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
5167	again (bug #6864)</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
5172	applications (bug #5236)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
5181	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	</itemizedlist>
5189
5190	</sect1>
5191
5192	<sect1>
5193	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
5194
5195	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5196	added:</para>
5197
5198	<itemizedlist>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
5206	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
5215	state</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
5224	</listitem>
5225
5226	<listitem>
5227	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
5228	</listitem>
5229
5230	<listitem>
5231	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
5260	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
5265	(bug #6784)</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
5274	</listitem>
5275
5276	<listitem>
5277	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
5278	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
5287	</listitem>
5288
5289	<listitem>
5290	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
5291	host only</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
5296	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
5301	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
5306	</listitem>
5307
5308	<listitem>
5309	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
5310	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
5315	</listitem>
5316
5317	<listitem>
5318	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
5319	</listitem>
5320
5321	<listitem>
5322	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
5323	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
5340	(bug #6714)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	</itemizedlist>
5364
5365	</sect1>
5366
5367	<sect1>
5368	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
5369
5370	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5371	were added:</para>
5372
5373	<itemizedlist>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
5377	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
5378	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
5387	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
5392	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
5393	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
5398	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
5403	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
5404	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
5405	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
5406	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
5415	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
5420	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
5437	</listitem>
5438
5439	<listitem>
5440	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
5441	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
5442	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
5443	</listitem>
5444
5445	<listitem>
5446	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
5447	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	</itemizedlist>
5451
5452	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5453
5454	<itemizedlist>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
5458	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
5467	VM</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
5472	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
5477	#1669)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
5482	#6442)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
5487	combination (bug #684)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
5492	the VM from the GUI</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
5497	medium is not accessible</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
5506	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
5511	#3106)</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
5516	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
5517	it</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
5530	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
5535	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
5548	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
5557	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
5566	in VirtualBox</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
5571	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
5576	VirtualBox</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
5585	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	</itemizedlist>
5589	</sect1>
5590
5591	<sect1>
5592	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
5593
5594	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5595	added:</para>
5596
5597	<itemizedlist>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
5601	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
5602	</listitem>
5603
5604	<listitem>
5605	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
5614	only) </para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
5619	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
5624	interface version</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
5629	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
5630	slot empty</para>
5631	</listitem>
5632
5633	<listitem>
5634	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
5635	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
5636	(bug #4220)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
5645	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
5650	using the drivers from LSI</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
5655	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
5660	attached</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
5665	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
5674	booting from SCSI devices</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
5679	is bug #6408)</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
5688	fail to initialize</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
5697	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
5702	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
5703	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
5712	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
5717	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
5722	(bug #6435)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
5727	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
5732	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
5733	(bug #6488)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
5738	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
5743	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
5748	#5227)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
5753	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
5762	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	</itemizedlist>
5766	</sect1>
5767
5768	<sect1>
5769	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
5770
5771	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5772	added:</para>
5773
5774	<itemizedlist>
5775
5776	<listitem>
5777	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
5778	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
5783	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
5788	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
5793	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
5806	</listitem>
5807
5808	<listitem>
5809	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
5810	</listitem>
5811
5812	<listitem>
5813	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
5814	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
5819	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
5820	</listitem>
5821
5822	<listitem>
5823	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
5824	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	<listitem>
5832	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
5837	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
5842	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
5843	calls (bug #6165)</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
5848	(bug #5297)</para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
5853	(bug #4962)</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
5858	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
5863	(bug #6176)</para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
5868	certain circumstances</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
5873	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
5886	(bug #3571)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
5891	devices</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
5896	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
5897	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
5902	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
5907	</listitem>
5908
5909	<listitem>
5910	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
5911	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
5916	response</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
5937	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
5946	</listitem>
5947
5948	<listitem>
5949	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
5950	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	</itemizedlist>
5970	</sect1>
5971
5972	<sect1>
5973	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
5974
5975	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5976	added:</para>
5977
5978	<itemizedlist>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
5986	</listitem>
5987
5988	<listitem>
5989	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
5990	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
5995	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
6000	(bug #3945)</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
6005	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
6010	and AMD-V only) </para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
6019	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
6020	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
6021	</listitem>
6022
6023	<listitem>
6024	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
6025	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
6026	</listitem>
6027
6028	<listitem>
6029	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
6030	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
6031	</listitem>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
6035	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
6040	snapshots command</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
6049	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
6054	</listitem>
6055
6056	<listitem>
6057	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
6058	</listitem>
6059
6060	<listitem>
6061	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
6066	(KWin bug)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
6071	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
6076	</listitem>
6077
6078	<listitem>
6079	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
6088	</listitem>
6089
6090	<listitem>
6091	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
6092	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
6093	</listitem>
6094
6095	<listitem>
6096	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
6097	bug #5787)</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
6102	DHCP requests</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
6107	(bug #3217)</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
6112	range (bug #5923)</para>
6113	</listitem>
6114
6115	<listitem>
6116	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
6117	</listitem>
6118
6119	<listitem>
6120	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
6125	</listitem>
6126
6127	<listitem>
6128	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
6129	</listitem>
6130
6131	<listitem>
6132	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
6133	file (bug #5681)</para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
6138	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
6139	</listitem>
6140
6141	<listitem>
6142	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
6143	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
6144	</listitem>
6145
6146	<listitem>
6147	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
6148	regression)</para>
6149	</listitem>
6150
6151	<listitem>
6152	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
6153	</listitem>
6154
6155	<listitem>
6156	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
6161	</listitem>
6162
6163	<listitem>
6164	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
6165	</listitem>
6166
6167	<listitem>
6168	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
6169	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
6170	</listitem>
6171
6172	<listitem>
6173	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
6174	</listitem>
6175
6176	<listitem>
6177	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
6178	</listitem>
6179
6180	<listitem>
6181	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
6182	</listitem>
6183
6184	<listitem>
6185	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
6186	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
6187	</listitem>
6188
6189	<listitem>
6190	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
6195	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
6196	</listitem>
6197
6198	<listitem>
6199	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
6212	(bug #5731)</para>
6213	</listitem>
6214
6215	<listitem>
6216	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
6217	again</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	</itemizedlist>
6221
6222	</sect1>
6223
6224	<sect1>
6225	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
6226
6227	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6228	added:</para>
6229
6230	<itemizedlist>
6231
6232	<listitem>
6233	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
6234	</listitem>
6235
6236	<listitem>
6237	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
6246	</listitem>
6247
6248	<listitem>
6249	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
6254	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
6255	</listitem>
6256
6257	<listitem>
6258	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
6259	</listitem>
6260
6261	<listitem>
6262	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
6263	</listitem>
6264
6265	<listitem>
6266	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
6279	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
6280	</listitem>
6281
6282	<listitem>
6283	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
6284	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
6289	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
6290	#1762)</para>
6291	</listitem>
6292
6293	<listitem>
6294	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
6295	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
6296	</listitem>
6297
6298	<listitem>
6299	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
6300	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
6305	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
6310	</listitem>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
6318	several virtual CPU cores</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
6331	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
6336	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
6345	guests</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	<listitem>
6349	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
6350	and on some 64bit guests</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>Linux Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
6355	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
6360	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
6361	</listitem>
6362
6363	<listitem>
6364	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
6365	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
6366	</listitem>
6367
6368	<listitem>
6369	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
6370	</listitem>
6371
6372	<listitem>
6373	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
6374	</listitem>
6375
6376	<listitem>
6377	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
6378	</listitem>
6379
6380	<listitem>
6381	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
6382	</listitem>
6383
6384	<listitem>
6385	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
6386	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
6391	</listitem>
6392
6393	</itemizedlist>
6394
6395	</sect1>
6396
6397	<sect1>
6398	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
6399
6400	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6401	were added:</para>
6402
6403	<itemizedlist>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
6407	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
6412	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
6413	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
6414	</listitem>
6415
6416	<listitem>
6417	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
6418	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
6419	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
6420	</listitem>
6421
6422	<listitem>
6423	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
6424	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
6425	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
6430	running</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
6435	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
6436	</listitem>
6437
6438	<listitem>
6439	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
6440	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
6445	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
6446	</listitem>
6447
6448	<listitem>
6449	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
6450	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
6451	</listitem>
6452
6453	</itemizedlist>
6454
6455	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6456
6457	<itemizedlist>
6458
6459	<listitem>
6460	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
6461	</listitem>
6462
6463	<listitem>
6464	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
6465	</listitem>
6466
6467	<listitem>
6468	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
6473	(bug #5291)</para>
6474	</listitem>
6475
6476	<listitem>
6477	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
6486	</listitem>
6487
6488	<listitem>
6489	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
6490	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
6495	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
6496	</listitem>
6497
6498	<listitem>
6499	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
6508	</listitem>
6509
6510	<listitem>
6511	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
6512	</listitem>
6513
6514	<listitem>
6515	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
6516	</listitem>
6517
6518	<listitem>
6519	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
6520	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
6521	</listitem>
6522
6523	<listitem>
6524	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
6525	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
6530	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
6535	(bug #2723)</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
6540	</listitem>
6541
6542	<listitem>
6543	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
6544	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
6549	optional manifest file on import</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
6554	</listitem>
6555
6556	<listitem>
6557	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
6558	(bug #3773)</para>
6559	</listitem>
6560
6561	<listitem>
6562	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
6563	</listitem>
6564
6565	<listitem>
6566	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
6567	</listitem>
6568
6569	<listitem>
6570	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
6571	layout (bug #2302)</para>
6572	</listitem>
6573
6574	<listitem>
6575	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
6576	(bug #4866)</para>
6577	</listitem>
6578
6579	<listitem>
6580	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
6581	left click (bug #5049)</para>
6582	</listitem>
6583
6584	<listitem>
6585	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
6586	certain conditions</para>
6587	</listitem>
6588
6589	<listitem>
6590	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
6591	</listitem>
6592
6593	<listitem>
6594	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
6595	</listitem>
6596
6597	<listitem>
6598	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
6599	</listitem>
6600
6601	<listitem>
6602	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
6607	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
6608	</listitem>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
6612	</listitem>
6613
6614	<listitem>
6615	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
6616	properties (bug #5337)</para>
6617	</listitem>
6618
6619	<listitem>
6620	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
6621	</listitem>
6622
6623	<listitem>
6624	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
6625	</listitem>
6626
6627	<listitem>
6628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
6629	</listitem>
6630
6631	<listitem>
6632	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
6633	</listitem>
6634
6635	<listitem>
6636	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
6637	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
6642	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
6643	(bug #928)</para>
6644	</listitem>
6645
6646	<listitem>
6647	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
6648	</listitem>
6649
6650	</itemizedlist>
6651
6652	</sect1>
6653
6654	<sect1>
6655	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
6656
6657	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6658	added:</para>
6659
6660	<itemizedlist>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
6664	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
6665	</listitem>
6666
6667	<listitem>
6668	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
6669	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
6674	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
6675	</listitem>
6676
6677	<listitem>
6678	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
6679	enabled</para>
6680	</listitem>
6681
6682	<listitem>
6683	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
6684	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
6685	</listitem>
6686
6687	<listitem>
6688	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
6689	(bug #2676)</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
6694	is connected to a raw file</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
6699	(bug #5355)</para>
6700	</listitem>
6701
6702	<listitem>
6703	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
6708	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
6713	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
6714	guest (bug #4496)</para>
6715	</listitem>
6716
6717	<listitem>
6718	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
6723	</listitem>
6724
6725	<listitem>
6726	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
6727	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
6732	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
6733	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
6734	</listitem>
6735
6736	</itemizedlist>
6737
6738	</sect1>
6739
6740	<sect1>
6741	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
6742
6743	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6744	added:</para>
6745
6746	<itemizedlist>
6747
6748	<listitem>
6749	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
6750	</listitem>
6751
6752	<listitem>
6753	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
6758	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
6759	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
6760	</listitem>
6761
6762	<listitem>
6763	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
6764	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
6765	</listitem>
6766
6767	<listitem>
6768	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
6773	</listitem>
6774
6775	<listitem>
6776	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
6777	</listitem>
6778
6779	<listitem>
6780	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
6781	</listitem>
6782
6783	<listitem>
6784	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
6785	</listitem>
6786
6787	<listitem>
6788	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
6789	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
6790	</listitem>
6791
6792	<listitem>
6793	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
6798	</listitem>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
6802	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	<listitem>
6810	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
6811	exhaustion</para>
6812	</listitem>
6813
6814	<listitem>
6815	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
6816	</listitem>
6817
6818	<listitem>
6819	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
6820	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
6821	</listitem>
6822
6823	<listitem>
6824	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
6825	folders (bug #4106)</para>
6826	</listitem>
6827
6828	<listitem>
6829	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
6830	folders (bug #4299)</para>
6831	</listitem>
6832
6833	<listitem>
6834	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
6835	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
6836	(bug #2921)</para>
6837	</listitem>
6838
6839	<listitem>
6840	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
6841	hosts only)</para>
6842	</listitem>
6843
6844	<listitem>
6845	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
6846	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
6847	</listitem>
6848
6849	<listitem>
6850	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
6851	</listitem>
6852
6853	<listitem>
6854	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
6855	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
6856	</listitem>
6857
6858	<listitem>
6859	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
6864	image inconsistency </para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
6873	</listitem>
6874
6875	<listitem>
6876	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
6877	(bug #2025)</para>
6878	</listitem>
6879
6880	<listitem>
6881	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
6882	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	</itemizedlist>
6886
6887	</sect1>
6888
6889	<sect1>
6890	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
6891
6892	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6893	added:</para>
6894
6895	<itemizedlist>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
6899	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
6900	</listitem>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
6904	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
6905	</listitem>
6906
6907	<listitem>
6908	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
6909	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
6918	software virtualization only) </para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
6923	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
6928	with root privileges</para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
6933	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
6938	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
6943	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
6944	</listitem>
6945
6946	<listitem>
6947	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
6948	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
6949	selector (bug #5063)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
6954	available</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
6959	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
6964	networking (bug #4775)</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
6969	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
6970	</listitem>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
6974	(bug #4907)</para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
6979	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
6980	</listitem>
6981
6982	<listitem>
6983	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
6984	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	<listitem>
6988	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
6989	</listitem>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
6997	</listitem>
6998
6999	<listitem>
7000	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
7005	are installed</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
7010	(bug #4771)</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
7019	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
7024	command</para>
7025	</listitem>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
7029	</listitem>
7030
7031	<listitem>
7032	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
7033	</listitem>
7034
7035	<listitem>
7036	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
7037	(bug #5089)</para>
7038	</listitem>
7039
7040	<listitem>
7041	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	</itemizedlist>
7045
7046	</sect1>
7047
7048	<sect1>
7049	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
7050
7051	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7052	added:</para>
7053
7054	<itemizedlist>
7055
7056	<listitem>
7057	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
7058	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
7059	</listitem>
7060
7061	<listitem>
7062	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
7063	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
7064	</listitem>
7065
7066	<listitem>
7067	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
7068	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
7069	</listitem>
7070
7071	<listitem>
7072	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
7073	guests (bug #2258)</para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
7078	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
7083	</listitem>
7084
7085	<listitem>
7086	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
7087	</listitem>
7088
7089	<listitem>
7090	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
7091	</listitem>
7092
7093	<listitem>
7094	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
7095	</listitem>
7096
7097	<listitem>
7098	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
7099	</listitem>
7100
7101	<listitem>
7102	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
7103	onlined or offlined</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
7108	</listitem>
7109
7110	<listitem>
7111	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
7112	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
7117	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
7118	</listitem>
7119
7120	<listitem>
7121	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
7126	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
7127	</listitem>
7128
7129	<listitem>
7130	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
7131	</listitem>
7132
7133	<listitem>
7134	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
7135	</listitem>
7136
7137	<listitem>
7138	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
7147	</listitem>
7148
7149	<listitem>
7150	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
7151	filters in machine settings XML</para>
7152	</listitem>
7153
7154	<listitem>
7155	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
7156	</listitem>
7157
7158	<listitem>
7159	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
7160	</listitem>
7161
7162	<listitem>
7163	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
7164	</listitem>
7165
7166	<listitem>
7167	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
7168	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
7169	</listitem>
7170
7171	<listitem>
7172	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
7173	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
7174	</listitem>
7175
7176	<listitem>
7177	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
7182	</listitem>
7183
7184	<listitem>
7185	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
7186	</listitem>
7187
7188	<listitem>
7189	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
7190	</listitem>
7191
7192	<listitem>
7193	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
7194	</listitem>
7195
7196	<listitem>
7197	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
7198	</listitem>
7199
7200	<listitem>
7201	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
7202	</listitem>
7203
7204	<listitem>
7205	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
7206	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
7207	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
7208	phase collapse</para>
7209	</listitem>
7210
7211	<listitem>
7212	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
7213	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
7218	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
7227	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
7232	interface bringup on Linux</para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
7237	</listitem>
7238
7239	<listitem>
7240	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
7241	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
7242	#4698, #4790)</para>
7243	</listitem>
7244
7245	<listitem>
7246	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
7247	less than the configured range</para>
7248	</listitem>
7249
7250	<listitem>
7251	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
7252	</listitem>
7253
7254	<listitem>
7255	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
7256	</listitem>
7257
7258	<listitem>
7259	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
7264	</listitem>
7265
7266	<listitem>
7267	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
7268	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
7273	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
7274	</listitem>
7275
7276	<listitem>
7277	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
7278	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
7279	</listitem>
7280
7281	<listitem>
7282	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
7283	</listitem>
7284
7285	<listitem>
7286	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
7287	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
7288	</listitem>
7289
7290	<listitem>
7291	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
7292	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
7293	</listitem>
7294
7295	<listitem>
7296	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
7297	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
7298	</listitem>
7299
7300	<listitem>
7301	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
7302	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
7303	</listitem>
7304
7305	<listitem>
7306	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
7307	</listitem>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
7311	</listitem>
7312
7313	</itemizedlist>
7314
7315	</sect1>
7316
7317	<sect1>
7318	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
7319
7320	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7321	added:</para>
7322
7323	<itemizedlist>
7324
7325	<listitem>
7326	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
7327	</listitem>
7328
7329	<listitem>
7330	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
7331	</listitem>
7332
7333	<listitem>
7334	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
7339	</listitem>
7340
7341	<listitem>
7342	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
7343	</listitem>
7344
7345	<listitem>
7346	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
7347	</listitem>
7348
7349	<listitem>
7350	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
7351	</listitem>
7352
7353	<listitem>
7354	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
7355	</listitem>
7356
7357	<listitem>
7358	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
7359	</listitem>
7360
7361	<listitem>
7362	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
7363	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
7364	</listitem>
7365
7366	<listitem>
7367	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
7368	</listitem>
7369
7370	<listitem>
7371	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
7372	</listitem>
7373
7374	<listitem>
7375	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
7384	</listitem>
7385
7386	<listitem>
7387	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
7388	</listitem>
7389
7390	<listitem>
7391	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
7392	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
7397	(bug #4654)</para>
7398	</listitem>
7399
7400	<listitem>
7401	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
7402	</listitem>
7403
7404	<listitem>
7405	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
7406	interfaces</para>
7407	</listitem>
7408
7409	<listitem>
7410	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
7411	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
7412	</listitem>
7413
7414	<listitem>
7415	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
7416	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
7417	</listitem>
7418
7419	<listitem>
7420	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
7421	properties (bug #3415)</para>
7422	</listitem>
7423
7424	<listitem>
7425	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
7426	(bug #1461)</para>
7427	</listitem>
7428
7429	<listitem>
7430	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
7431	</listitem>
7432
7433	<listitem>
7434	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
7435	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
7436	</listitem>
7437
7438	<listitem>
7439	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
7440	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
7441	</listitem>
7442
7443	<listitem>
7444	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
7445	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
7450	</listitem>
7451
7452	<listitem>
7453	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
7454	</listitem>
7455
7456	<listitem>
7457	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
7458	</listitem>
7459
7460	<listitem>
7461	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
7462	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
7463	</listitem>
7464
7465	<listitem>
7466	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
7467	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
7468	</listitem>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
7472	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
7473	</listitem>
7474
7475	<listitem>
7476	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
7477	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	</itemizedlist>
7481
7482	</sect1>
7483	<sect1>
7484	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
7485
7486	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7487	added:</para>
7488
7489	<itemizedlist>
7490
7491	<listitem>
7492	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
7493	</listitem>
7494
7495	<listitem>
7496	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
7497	</listitem>
7498
7499	<listitem>
7500	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
7501	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
7502	</listitem>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
7506	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
7507	</listitem>
7508
7509	<listitem>
7510	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
7511	</listitem>
7512
7513	<listitem>
7514	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
7515	</listitem>
7516
7517	<listitem>
7518	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
7519	</listitem>
7520
7521	<listitem>
7522	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
7523	</listitem>
7524
7525	<listitem>
7526	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
7527	</listitem>
7528
7529	<listitem>
7530	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
7531	</listitem>
7532
7533	<listitem>
7534	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
7535	</listitem>
7536
7537	<listitem>
7538	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
7539	</listitem>
7540
7541	<listitem>
7542	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
7543	</listitem>
7544
7545	<listitem>
7546	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
7547	</listitem>
7548
7549	<listitem>
7550	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
7551	</listitem>
7552
7553	<listitem>
7554	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
7555	guest (bug #4381)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
7560	</listitem>
7561
7562	<listitem>
7563	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
7564	</listitem>
7565
7566	<listitem>
7567	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
7568	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
7569	</listitem>
7570
7571	<listitem>
7572	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
7573	</listitem>
7574
7575	<listitem>
7576	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
7577	</listitem>
7578
7579	<listitem>
7580	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
7581	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
7582	</listitem>
7583
7584	<listitem>
7585	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
7586	</listitem>
7587
7588	<listitem>
7589	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
7590	</listitem>
7591
7592	<listitem>
7593	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
7598	</listitem>
7599
7600	<listitem>
7601	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<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>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	</itemizedlist>
7609
7610	</sect1>
7611
7612	<sect1>
7613	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
7614
7615	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7616	were added:</para>
7617
7618	<itemizedlist>
7619
7620	<listitem>
7621	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
7622	</listitem>
7623
7624	<listitem>
7625	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
7626	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7627	</listitem>
7628
7629	<listitem>
7630	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
7631	</listitem>
7632
7633	</itemizedlist>
7634
7635	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7636
7637	<itemizedlist>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
7641	</listitem>
7642
7643	<listitem>
7644	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
7645	certain conditions</para>
7646	</listitem>
7647
7648	<listitem>
7649	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
7650	</listitem>
7651
7652	<listitem>
7653	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
7654	</listitem>
7655
7656	<listitem>
7657	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
7658	</listitem>
7659
7660	<listitem>
7661	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
7662	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
7663	</listitem>
7664
7665	<listitem>
7666	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
7667	</listitem>
7668
7669	<listitem>
7670	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
7675	</listitem>
7676
7677	<listitem>
7678	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
7679	</listitem>
7680
7681	<listitem>
7682	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
7683	</listitem>
7684
7685	<listitem>
7686	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
7687	</listitem>
7688
7689	<listitem>
7690	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
7691	</listitem>
7692
7693	<listitem>
7694	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
7699	(non Windows hosts)</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	<listitem>
7707	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
7716	</listitem>
7717
7718	<listitem>
7719	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
7720	</listitem>
7721
7722	<listitem>
7723	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
7724	</listitem>
7725
7726	<listitem>
7727	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
7728	</listitem>
7729
7730	<listitem>
7731	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
7732	</listitem>
7733
7734	<listitem>
7735	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
7736	</listitem>
7737
7738	<listitem>
7739	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
7740	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
7745	</listitem>
7746
7747	<listitem>
7748	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
7749	</listitem>
7750
7751	<listitem>
7752	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
7753	</listitem>
7754
7755	<listitem>
7756	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
7757	</listitem>
7758
7759	<listitem>
7760	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
7761	</listitem>
7762
7763	<listitem>
7764	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
7769	</listitem>
7770
7771	<listitem>
7772	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
7773	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
7774	</listitem>
7775
7776	<listitem>
7777	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
7778	</listitem>
7779
7780	<listitem>
7781	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
7782	</listitem>
7783
7784	<listitem>
7785	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
7790	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
7795	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
7800	correct file mode when creating files</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
7805	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
7810	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	<listitem>
7814	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
7815	</listitem>
7816
7817	<listitem>
7818	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
7819	</listitem>
7820
7821	<listitem>
7822	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
7823	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
7824	</listitem>
7825
7826	<listitem>
7827	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
7828	guest property lookup</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
7833	basic network information)</para>
7834	</listitem>
7835
7836	<listitem>
7837	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
7838	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
7839	</listitem>
7840
7841	<listitem>
7842	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
7843	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
7844	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
7845	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
7846	</listitem>
7847
7848	<listitem>
7849	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
7854	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
7855	web service</para>
7856	</listitem>
7857
7858	<listitem>
7859	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
7860	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
7861	</listitem>
7862
7863	<listitem>
7864	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
7865	unavailable</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	</itemizedlist>
7873	</sect1>
7874
7875	<sect1>
7876	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
7877
7878	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7879	added:</para>
7880
7881	<itemizedlist>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
7885	installation</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
7890	</listitem>
7891
7892	<listitem>
7893	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
7894	later (bug #3981)</para>
7895	</listitem>
7896
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
7899	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
7900	</listitem>
7901
7902	<listitem>
7903	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
7904	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
7905	(bug #4034)
7906	</para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	<listitem>
7910	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
7911	networking</para>
7912	</listitem>
7913
7914	<listitem>
7915	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
7916	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
7917	</listitem>
7918
7919	<listitem>
7920	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
7921	clicks</para>
7922	</listitem>
7923
7924	<listitem>
7925	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
7926	Windows 7 guests</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
7931	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
7936	</listitem>
7937
7938	<listitem>
7939	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
7940	</listitem>
7941
7942	<listitem>
7943	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
7944	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
7949	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
7954	</listitem>
7955
7956	<listitem>
7957	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
7958	</listitem>
7959
7960	<listitem>
7961	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
7962	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
7963	(bug #3864)</para>
7964	</listitem>
7965
7966	<listitem>
7967	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
7968	now flushes the output stream</para>
7969	</listitem>
7970
7971	<listitem>
7972	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
7973	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
7974	</listitem>
7975
7976	<listitem>
7977	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
7978	</listitem>
7979
7980	<listitem>
7981	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
7982	</listitem>
7983
7984	<listitem>
7985	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
7986	</listitem>
7987
7988	<listitem>
7989	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
7990	</listitem>
7991
7992	<listitem>
7993	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
7994	(bug #3964)</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
7999	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
8004	hosts</para>
8005	</listitem>
8006
8007	<listitem>
8008	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
8009	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
8010	e1000 adapter</para>
8011	</listitem>
8012
8013	<listitem>
8014	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
8015	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
8016	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
8017	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
8018	</listitem>
8019
8020	<listitem>
8021	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
8022	</listitem>
8023
8024	<listitem>
8025	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
8026	</listitem>
8027
8028	<listitem>
8029	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
8030	</listitem>
8031
8032	<listitem>
8033	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
8034	file (bug #1023)</para>
8035	</listitem>
8036
8037	<listitem>
8038	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
8039	</listitem>
8040
8041	<listitem>
8042	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	</itemizedlist>
8046	</sect1>
8047
8048	<sect1>
8049	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
8050
8051	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8052	added:</para>
8053
8054	<itemizedlist>
8055
8056	<listitem>
8057	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
8058	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
8059	</listitem>
8060
8061	<listitem>
8062	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
8063	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
8064	and later</para>
8065	</listitem>
8066
8067	<listitem>
8068	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
8069	running services</para>
8070	</listitem>
8071
8072	<listitem>
8073	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
8074	terminates</para>
8075	</listitem>
8076
8077	<listitem>
8078	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
8079	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
8080	</listitem>
8081
8082	<listitem>
8083	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
8084	installed on the guest</para>
8085	</listitem>
8086
8087	<listitem>
8088	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
8089	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
8090	</listitem>
8091
8092	<listitem>
8093	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
8094	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
8095	</listitem>
8096
8097	<listitem>
8098	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
8099	(bug #2628)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
8104	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
8109	(bug #3657)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
8114	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
8119	virtualization only)
8120	</para>
8121	</listitem>
8122
8123	<listitem>
8124	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
8125	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
8126	</listitem>
8127
8128	<listitem>
8129	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
8130	</listitem>
8131
8132	<listitem>
8133	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
8134	networks (bug #3702)</para>
8135	</listitem>
8136
8137	<listitem>
8138	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
8139	bug #3689)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
8144	bug #3679)</para>
8145	</listitem>
8146
8147	<listitem>
8148	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
8149	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
8150	</listitem>
8151
8152	<listitem>
8153	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
8154	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
8155	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
8156	</listitem>
8157
8158	<listitem>
8159	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
8160	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
8161	</listitem>
8162
8163	<listitem>
8164	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
8165	lease (bug #3655)</para>
8166	</listitem>
8167
8168	<listitem>
8169	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
8170	(bug #3667)</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
8175	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
8176	</listitem>
8177
8178	<listitem>
8179	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
8180	</listitem>
8181
8182	<listitem>
8183	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
8188	</listitem>
8189
8190	<listitem>
8191	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
8192	</listitem>
8193
8194	<listitem>
8195	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
8196	</listitem>
8197
8198	<listitem>
8199	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
8200	</listitem>
8201
8202	<listitem>
8203	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
8204	</listitem>
8205
8206	</itemizedlist>
8207	</sect1>
8208
8209	<sect1>
8210	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
8211
8212	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8213	were added:</para>
8214
8215	<itemizedlist>
8216
8217	<listitem>
8218	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
8219	</listitem>
8220
8221	<listitem>
8222	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
8223	</listitem>
8224
8225	<listitem>
8226	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
8231	</listitem>
8232
8233	<listitem>
8234	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
8235	</listitem>
8236
8237	<listitem>
8238	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
8239	</listitem>
8240
8241	<listitem>
8242	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
8243	</listitem>
8244
8245	<listitem>
8246	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
8247	</listitem>
8248
8249	<listitem>
8250	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
8251	</listitem>
8252
8253	<listitem>
8254	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
8255	</listitem>
8256
8257	</itemizedlist>
8258
8259	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8260
8261	<itemizedlist>
8262
8263	<listitem>
8264	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
8265	</listitem>
8266
8267	<listitem>
8268	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
8269	</listitem>
8270
8271	<listitem>
8272	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
8277	</listitem>
8278
8279	<listitem>
8280	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
8281	</listitem>
8282
8283	<listitem>
8284	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
8285	</listitem>
8286
8287	<listitem>
8288	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
8289	</listitem>
8290
8291	<listitem>
8292	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
8293	</listitem>
8294
8295	<listitem>
8296	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
8297	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
8298	</listitem>
8299
8300	<listitem>
8301	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
8302	</listitem>
8303
8304	<listitem>
8305	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
8306	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
8307	</listitem>
8308
8309	<listitem>
8310	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
8311	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
8316	</listitem>
8317
8318	<listitem>
8319	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
8320	</listitem>
8321
8322	<listitem>
8323	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
8324	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
8325	</listitem>
8326
8327	<listitem>
8328	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
8329	</listitem>
8330
8331	<listitem>
8332	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
8333	ESX server images)</para>
8334	</listitem>
8335
8336	<listitem>
8337	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
8338	writable</para>
8339	</listitem>
8340
8341	<listitem>
8342	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
8343	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
8344	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
8345	</listitem>
8346
8347	<listitem>
8348	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
8349	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
8350	</listitem>
8351
8352	<listitem>
8353	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
8354	</listitem>
8355
8356	<listitem>
8357	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
8358	</listitem>
8359
8360	<listitem>
8361	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
8362	hosts when creating files</para>
8363	</listitem>
8364
8365	<listitem>
8366	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
8367	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
8368	</listitem>
8369
8370	<listitem>
8371	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
8372	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
8373	#2306)</para>
8374	</listitem>
8375
8376	<listitem>
8377	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
8378	(bug #3555)</para>
8379	</listitem>
8380
8381	<listitem>
8382	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
8383	installer (bug #3524)</para>
8384	</listitem>
8385
8386	<listitem>
8387	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
8388	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
8389	</listitem>
8390
8391	<listitem>
8392	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
8393	interface (bug #3414)</para>
8394	</listitem>
8395
8396	<listitem>
8397	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
8398	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
8399	</listitem>
8400
8401	<listitem>
8402	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
8403	(bug #3586)</para>
8404	</listitem>
8405
8406	<listitem>
8407	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
8408	from Scratch systems</para>
8409	</listitem>
8410
8411	<listitem>
8412	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
8413	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
8414	</listitem>
8415
8416	<listitem>
8417	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
8418	</listitem>
8419
8420	<listitem>
8421	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
8422	default to compact format</para>
8423	</listitem>
8424
8425	<listitem>
8426	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
8427	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
8428	</listitem>
8429
8430	<listitem>
8431	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
8432	</listitem>
8433
8434	<listitem>
8435	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
8436	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
8437	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
8438	</listitem>
8439
8440	<listitem>
8441	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
8442	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
8443	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
8444	</listitem>
8445
8446	<listitem>
8447	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
8448	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
8449	</listitem>
8450
8451	<listitem>
8452	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
8457	</listitem>
8458
8459	<listitem>
8460	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
8461	</listitem>
8462
8463	<listitem>
8464	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
8465	</listitem>
8466
8467	<listitem>
8468	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
8469	</listitem>
8470
8471	<listitem>
8472	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
8481	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
8486	</listitem>
8487
8488	<listitem>
8489	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
8490	regression; bug #2065)</para>
8491	</listitem>
8492
8493	<listitem>
8494	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
8495	</listitem>
8496
8497	<listitem>
8498	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
8499	</listitem>
8500
8501	<listitem>
8502	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
8503	</listitem>
8504
8505	<listitem>
8506	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
8507	#2536)</para>
8508	</listitem>
8509
8510	<listitem>
8511	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
8512	</listitem>
8513
8514	<listitem>
8515	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
8516	(bug #3548)</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	</itemizedlist>
8520	</sect1>
8521
8522	<sect1>
8523	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
8524
8525	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8526	added:</para>
8527
8528	<itemizedlist>
8529
8530	<listitem>
8531	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8532	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8533	</listitem>
8534
8535	<listitem>
8536	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
8537	</listitem>
8538
8539	<listitem>
8540	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
8541	</listitem>
8542
8543	<listitem>
8544	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8545	</listitem>
8546
8547	<listitem>
8548	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
8549	(bug #3115)</para>
8550	</listitem>
8551
8552	<listitem>
8553	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
8554	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
8555	</listitem>
8556
8557	<listitem>
8558	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
8559	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
8560	(bug #3215)</para>
8561	</listitem>
8562
8563	<listitem>
8564	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
8565	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
8566	</listitem>
8567
8568	<listitem>
8569	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
8570	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
8571	</listitem>
8572
8573	<listitem>
8574	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
8575	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	<listitem>
8579	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8580	in parallel</para>
8581	</listitem>
8582
8583	<listitem>
8584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8585	</listitem>
8586
8587	<listitem>
8588	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
8589	</listitem>
8590
8591	<listitem>
8592	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
8593	</listitem>
8594
8595	<listitem>
8596	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
8597	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
8598	</listitem>
8599
8600	<listitem>
8601	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
8602	</listitem>
8603
8604	<listitem>
8605	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
8606	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
8607	</listitem>
8608
8609	<listitem>
8610	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
8611	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
8612	</listitem>
8613
8614	<listitem>
8615	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
8616	</listitem>
8617
8618	<listitem>
8619	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8620	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8621	</listitem>
8622
8623	<listitem>
8624	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
8625	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
8626	</listitem>
8627
8628	<listitem>
8629	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
8630	</listitem>
8631
8632	<listitem>
8633	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
8634	</listitem>
8635
8636	<listitem>
8637	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
8638	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
8639	</listitem>
8640
8641	<listitem>
8642	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
8643	</listitem>
8644
8645	<listitem>
8646	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
8647	</listitem>
8648
8649	<listitem>
8650	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
8651	</listitem>
8652
8653	<listitem>
8654	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
8655	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
8656	</listitem>
8657
8658	<listitem>
8659	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
8660	</listitem>
8661
8662	<listitem>
8663	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8664	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8665	</listitem>
8666
8667	<listitem>
8668	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8669	</listitem>
8670
8671	<listitem>
8672	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
8673	</listitem>
8674
8675	<listitem>
8676	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
8677	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
8678	</listitem>
8679
8680	<listitem>
8681	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
8682	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
8683	</listitem>
8684
8685	<listitem>
8686	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
8687	</listitem>
8688
8689	<listitem>
8690	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
8691	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
8692	</listitem>
8693
8694	<listitem>
8695	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8696	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8697	</listitem>
8698
8699	<listitem>
8700	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
8701	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
8702	</listitem>
8703
8704	<listitem>
8705	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
8706	(bug #3213)</para>
8707	</listitem>
8708
8709	<listitem>
8710	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
8711	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
8712	</listitem>
8713
8714	<listitem>
8715	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
8716	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
8717	</listitem>
8718
8719	</itemizedlist>
8720	</sect1>
8721
8722	<sect1>
8723	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
8724
8725	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8726	added:</para>
8727
8728	<itemizedlist>
8729
8730	<listitem>
8731	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
8732	</listitem>
8733
8734	<listitem>
8735	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
8736	</listitem>
8737
8738	<listitem>
8739	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
8740	</listitem>
8741
8742	<listitem>
8743	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
8744	</listitem>
8745
8746	<listitem>
8747	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
8748	</listitem>
8749
8750	<listitem>
8751	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
8752	</listitem>
8753
8754	<listitem>
8755	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
8756	</listitem>
8757
8758	<listitem>
8759	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
8760	</listitem>
8761
8762	<listitem>
8763	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
8764	</listitem>
8765
8766	<listitem>
8767	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
8768	</listitem>
8769
8770	<listitem>
8771	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
8772	</listitem>
8773
8774	<listitem>
8775	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
8776	</listitem>
8777
8778	<listitem>
8779	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
8780	</listitem>
8781
8782	<listitem>
8783	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
8784	</listitem>
8785
8786	<listitem>
8787	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
8788	</listitem>
8789
8790	<listitem>
8791	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
8792	</listitem>
8793
8794	<listitem>
8795	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
8796	(bug #3067)</para>
8797	</listitem>
8798
8799	<listitem>
8800	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
8801	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
8802	</listitem>
8803
8804	<listitem>
8805	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
8806	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
8807	</listitem>
8808
8809	<listitem>
8810	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
8811	</listitem>
8812
8813	<listitem>
8814	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
8815	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
8816	</listitem>
8817
8818	<listitem>
8819	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
8820	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8821	</listitem>
8822
8823	<listitem>
8824	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
8825	</listitem>
8826
8827	<listitem>
8828	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
8829	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
8830	</listitem>
8831
8832	<listitem>
8833	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
8834	</listitem>
8835
8836	<listitem>
8837	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
8838	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
8839	</listitem>
8840
8841	<listitem>
8842	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
8843	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
8844	</listitem>
8845
8846	<listitem>
8847	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
8848	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
8849	</para>
8850	</listitem>
8851
8852	<listitem>
8853	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
8854	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
8855	</para>
8856	</listitem>
8857
8858	<listitem>
8859	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
8860	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
8861	</para>
8862	</listitem>
8863
8864	<listitem>
8865	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
8866	</listitem>
8867
8868	<listitem>
8869	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
8870	</listitem>
8871
8872	<listitem>
8873	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
8874	</listitem>
8875
8876	<listitem>
8877	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
8878	</listitem>
8879
8880	<listitem>
8881	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
8882	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
8883	</listitem>
8884
8885	<listitem>
8886	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
8887	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
8888	</listitem>
8889
8890	<listitem>
8891	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
8892	formatting a drive</para>
8893	</listitem>
8894
8895	<listitem>
8896	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
8897	</listitem>
8898
8899	<listitem>
8900	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
8901	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8902	</listitem>
8903
8904	<listitem>
8905	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
8906	</listitem>
8907
8908	<listitem>
8909	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
8910	</listitem>
8911
8912	<listitem>
8913	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
8914	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
8915	</listitem>
8916
8917	<listitem>
8918	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
8919	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
8920	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
8921	</listitem>
8922
8923	<listitem>
8924	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
8925	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
8926	</listitem>
8927
8928	<listitem>
8929	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
8930	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
8931	</listitem>
8932
8933	<listitem>
8934	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
8935	(bug #2768)</para>
8936	</listitem>
8937
8938	<listitem>
8939	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
8940	</listitem>
8941
8942	<listitem>
8943	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
8944	</listitem>
8945
8946	<listitem>
8947	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
8948	single, unified package</para>
8949	</listitem>
8950
8951	<listitem>
8952	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
8953	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
8954	</listitem>
8955
8956	<listitem>
8957	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
8958	</listitem>
8959
8960	<listitem>
8961	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
8962	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
8963	</listitem>
8964
8965	<listitem>
8966	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
8967	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
8968	</listitem>
8969
8970	<listitem>
8971	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
8972	</listitem>
8973
8974	<listitem>
8975	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
8976	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
8977	doing 3D</para>
8978	</listitem>
8979
8980	<listitem>
8981	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
8982	</listitem>
8983
8984	<listitem>
8985	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
8986	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
8987	</listitem>
8988
8989	<listitem>
8990	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
8991	</listitem>
8992
8993	<listitem>
8994	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
8995	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
8996	</listitem>
8997
8998	<listitem>
8999	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
9000	</listitem>
9001
9002	<listitem>
9003	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
9004	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
9005	</listitem>
9006
9007	<listitem>
9008	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
9009	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
9010	(bug #2938)</para>
9011	</listitem>
9012
9013	<listitem>
9014	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
9015	Linux guests</para>
9016	</listitem>
9017
9018	<listitem>
9019	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
9020	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
9021	(bug #1776)</para>
9022	</listitem>
9023
9024	<listitem>
9025	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
9026	(bug #1612)</para>
9027	</listitem>
9028
9029	<listitem>
9030	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
9031	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
9032	</listitem>
9033
9034	<listitem>
9035	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
9036	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
9037	</listitem>
9038
9039	<listitem>
9040	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
9041	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
9042	</listitem>
9043
9044	</itemizedlist>
9045	</sect1>
9046
9047	<sect1>
9048	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
9049
9050	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9051	were added:</para>
9052
9053	<itemizedlist>
9054	<listitem>
9055	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
9056	</listitem>
9057
9058	<listitem>
9059	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
9060	</listitem>
9061
9062	<listitem>
9063	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
9064	</listitem>
9065
9066	<listitem>
9067	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
9068	</listitem>
9069
9070	<listitem>
9071	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
9072	</listitem>
9073
9074	<listitem>
9075	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
9076	</listitem>
9077
9078	<listitem>
9079	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
9080	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
9081	</listitem>
9082
9083	<listitem>
9084	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
9085	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
9086	</listitem>
9087
9088	</itemizedlist>
9089
9090	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
9091
9092	<itemizedlist>
9093	<listitem>
9094	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
9095	</listitem>
9096
9097	<listitem>
9098	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
9099	</listitem>
9100
9101	<listitem>
9102	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
9103	</listitem>
9104
9105	<listitem>
9106	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
9107	</listitem>
9108
9109	<listitem>
9110	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
9111	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
9112	</listitem>
9113
9114	<listitem>
9115	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
9116	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
9117	</listitem>
9118
9119	<listitem>
9120	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
9121	</listitem>
9122
9123	<listitem>
9124	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
9125	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
9126	</listitem>
9127
9128	<listitem>
9129	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
9130	</listitem>
9131
9132	<listitem>
9133	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
9134	</listitem>
9135
9136	<listitem>
9137	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
9138	</listitem>
9139
9140	<listitem>
9141	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
9142	</listitem>
9143
9144	<listitem>
9145	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
9146	</listitem>
9147
9148	<listitem>
9149	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
9150	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
9151	</listitem>
9152
9153	<listitem>
9154	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
9155	the compiz window manager</para>
9156	</listitem>
9157
9158	<listitem>
9159	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
9160	</listitem>
9161
9162	<listitem>
9163	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
9164	</listitem>
9165
9166	<listitem>
9167	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
9168	</listitem>
9169
9170	<listitem>
9171	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
9172	</listitem>
9173
9174	<listitem>
9175	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
9176	</listitem>
9177
9178	<listitem>
9179	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
9180	</listitem>
9181
9182	<listitem>
9183	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
9184	</listitem>
9185
9186	<listitem>
9187	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
9188	</listitem>
9189
9190	<listitem>
9191	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
9192	</listitem>
9193
9194	<listitem>
9195	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
9196	of two (bug #2724)</para>
9197	</listitem>
9198
9199	<listitem>
9200	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
9201	for direct device access</para>
9202	</listitem>
9203
9204	<listitem>
9205	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
9206	</listitem>
9207
9208	<listitem>
9209	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
9210	</listitem>
9211
9212	<listitem>
9213	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
9214	</listitem>
9215
9216	<listitem>
9217	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
9218	</listitem>
9219
9220	<listitem>
9221	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
9222	</listitem>
9223
9224	<listitem>
9225	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
9226	</listitem>
9227
9228	<listitem>
9229	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
9230	</listitem>
9231
9232	<listitem>
9233	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
9234	</listitem>
9235
9236	</itemizedlist>
9237	</sect1>
9238
9239	<sect1>
9240	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
9241
9242	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9243	added:</para>
9244
9245	<itemizedlist>
9246
9247	<listitem>
9248	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
9249	states/snapshots</para>
9250	</listitem>
9251
9252	<listitem>
9253	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
9254	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
9255	</listitem>
9256
9257	<listitem>
9258	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
9259	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
9260	</listitem>
9261
9262	<listitem>
9263	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
9264	collisions</para>
9265	</listitem>
9266
9267	<listitem>
9268	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
9269	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
9270	</listitem>
9271
9272	<listitem>
9273	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
9274	</listitem>
9275
9276	<listitem>
9277	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
9278	reliably</para>
9279	</listitem>
9280
9281	<listitem>
9282	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
9283	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
9284	</listitem>
9285
9286	<listitem>
9287	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
9288	a reboot</para>
9289	</listitem>
9290
9291	<listitem>
9292	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
9293	</listitem>
9294
9295	<listitem>
9296	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
9297	in parallel</para>
9298	</listitem>
9299
9300	<listitem>
9301	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
9302	</listitem>
9303
9304	<listitem>
9305	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
9306	correctly</para>
9307	</listitem>
9308
9309	<listitem>
9310	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
9311	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
9312	</listitem>
9313
9314	</itemizedlist>
9315	</sect1>
9316
9317	<sect1>
9318	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
9319
9320	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9321	added:</para>
9322
9323	<itemizedlist>
9324
9325	<listitem>
9326	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
9327	(bug #2220)</para>
9328	</listitem>
9329
9330	<listitem>
9331	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
9332	</listitem>
9333
9334	<listitem>
9335	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
9336	</listitem>
9337
9338	<listitem>
9339	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
9340	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
9341	</listitem>
9342
9343	<listitem>
9344	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
9345	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
9346	</listitem>
9347
9348	<listitem>
9349	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
9350	(bug #2624)</para>
9351	</listitem>
9352
9353	<listitem>
9354	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
9355	(bug #2024)</para>
9356	</listitem>
9357
9358	<listitem>
9359	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
9360	</listitem>
9361
9362	<listitem>
9363	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
9364	</listitem>
9365
9366	<listitem>
9367	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
9368	</listitem>
9369
9370	<listitem>
9371	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
9372	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
9373	</listitem>
9374
9375	<listitem>
9376	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
9377	applications when updating the installation</para>
9378	</listitem>
9379
9380	<listitem>
9381	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
9382	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
9383	</listitem>
9384
9385	<listitem>
9386	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
9387	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
9388	</listitem>
9389
9390	<listitem>
9391	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
9392	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
9393	</listitem>
9394
9395	<listitem>
9396	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
9397	connected to a host device</para>
9398	</listitem>
9399
9400	<listitem>
9401	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
9402	</listitem>
9403
9404	<listitem>
9405	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
9406	</listitem>
9407
9408	<listitem>
9409	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
9410	</listitem>
9411
9412	<listitem>
9413	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
9414	when using native RDP connections</para>
9415	</listitem>
9416
9417	<listitem>
9418	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
9419	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
9420	</listitem>
9421
9422	<listitem>
9423	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
9424	(bug #2591)</para>
9425	</listitem>
9426
9427	<listitem>
9428	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
9429	guests (bug #2550)</para>
9430	</listitem>
9431
9432	<listitem>
9433	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
9434	</listitem>
9435
9436	</itemizedlist>
9437	</sect1>
9438
9439	<sect1>
9440	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
9441
9442	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9443	added:</para>
9444
9445	<itemizedlist>
9446	<listitem>
9447	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
9448	</listitem>
9449
9450	<listitem>
9451	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
9452	</listitem>
9453
9454	<listitem>
9455	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
9456	</listitem>
9457
9458	<listitem>
9459	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
9460	</listitem>
9461
9462	<listitem>
9463	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
9464	</listitem>
9465
9466	<listitem>
9467	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
9468	</listitem>
9469
9470	<listitem>
9471	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
9472	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
9473	</listitem>
9474
9475	<listitem>
9476	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
9477	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
9478	</listitem>
9479
9480	<listitem>
9481	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
9482	</listitem>
9483
9484	<listitem>
9485	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
9486	equal to the client resolution</para>
9487	</listitem>
9488
9489	<listitem>
9490	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
9491	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
9492	</listitem>
9493
9494	<listitem>
9495	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
9496	</listitem>
9497
9498	<listitem>
9499	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
9500	</listitem>
9501
9502	<listitem>
9503	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
9504	</listitem>
9505
9506	<listitem>
9507	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
9508	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
9509	</listitem>
9510
9511	<listitem>
9512	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
9513	networking (bug #2474)</para>
9514	</listitem>
9515
9516	<listitem>
9517	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
9518	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
9519	</listitem>
9520
9521	<listitem>
9522	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
9523	</listitem>
9524
9525	<listitem>
9526	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
9527	</listitem>
9528
9529	<listitem>
9530	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
9531	</listitem>
9532
9533	<listitem>
9534	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
9535	</listitem>
9536
9537	<listitem>
9538	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
9539	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
9540	</listitem>
9541
9542	<listitem>
9543	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
9544	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
9545	</listitem>
9546
9547	<listitem>
9548	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
9549	</listitem>
9550
9551	<listitem>
9552	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
9553	</listitem>
9554
9555	<listitem>
9556	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
9557	</listitem>
9558
9559	</itemizedlist>
9560
9561	</sect1>
9562
9563	<sect1>
9564	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
9565
9566	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9567	added:</para>
9568
9569	<itemizedlist>
9570
9571	<listitem>
9572	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
9573	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
9574	</listitem>
9575
9576	<listitem>
9577	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
9578	</listitem>
9579
9580	<listitem>
9581	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
9582	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
9583	</listitem>
9584
9585	<listitem>
9586	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
9587	</listitem>
9588
9589	<listitem>
9590	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
9591	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
9592	</listitem>
9593
9594	<listitem>
9595	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
9596	</listitem>
9597
9598	<listitem>
9599	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
9600	the virtual disk manager</para>
9601	</listitem>
9602
9603	<listitem>
9604	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
9605	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
9606	</listitem>
9607
9608	<listitem>
9609	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
9610	</listitem>
9611
9612	<listitem>
9613	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
9614	</listitem>
9615
9616	<listitem>
9617	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
9618	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
9619	</listitem>
9620
9621	<listitem>
9622	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
9623	bug #2067)</para>
9624	</listitem>
9625
9626	<listitem>
9627	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
9628	</listitem>
9629
9630	<listitem>
9631	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
9632	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
9633	</listitem>
9634
9635	<listitem>
9636	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
9637	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
9638	(bug #2184)</para>
9639	</listitem>
9640
9641	<listitem>
9642	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
9643	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
9644	</listitem>
9645
9646	<listitem>
9647	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
9648	(Windows guests only)</para>
9649	</listitem>
9650
9651	<listitem>
9652	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
9653	</listitem>
9654
9655	<listitem>
9656	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
9657	</listitem>
9658
9659	<listitem>
9660	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
9661	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
9662	</listitem>
9663
9664	<listitem>
9665	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
9666	</listitem>
9667
9668	<listitem>
9669	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
9670	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
9671	</para>
9672	</listitem>
9673
9674	<listitem>
9675	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
9676	</listitem>
9677
9678	<listitem>
9679	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
9680	</listitem>
9681
9682	<listitem>
9683	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
9684	a VM reboot</para>
9685	</listitem>
9686
9687	<listitem>
9688	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
9689	</listitem>
9690
9691	<listitem>
9692	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
9693	buggy X servers</para>
9694	</listitem>
9695
9696	<listitem>
9697	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
9698	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
9699	</listitem>
9700
9701	<listitem>
9702	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
9703	</listitem>
9704
9705	<listitem>
9706	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
9707	(bug #2128)</para>
9708	</listitem>
9709
9710	<listitem>
9711	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
9712	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
9713	</listitem>
9714
9715	<listitem>
9716	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
9717	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
9718	</listitem>
9719
9720	<listitem>
9721	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
9722	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
9723	</listitem>
9724
9725	<listitem>
9726	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
9727	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
9728	</listitem>
9729
9730	<listitem>
9731	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
9732	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
9733	</listitem>
9734
9735	<listitem>
9736	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
9737	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
9738	</listitem>
9739
9740	<listitem>
9741	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
9742	installer into a single package</para>
9743	</listitem>
9744
9745	<listitem>
9746	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
9747	port to the guest
9748	</para>
9749	</listitem>
9750
9751	</itemizedlist>
9752
9753	</sect1>
9754
9755	<sect1>
9756	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
9757
9758	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9759	were added:<itemizedlist>
9760
9761	<listitem>
9762	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
9763	</listitem>
9764
9765	<listitem>
9766	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
9767	</listitem>
9768
9769	<listitem>
9770	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
9771	</listitem>
9772
9773	<listitem>
9774	<para>New-version notifier</para>
9775	</listitem>
9776
9777	<listitem>
9778	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
9779	</listitem>
9780
9781	<listitem>
9782	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
9783	</listitem>
9784
9785	<listitem>
9786	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
9787	</listitem>
9788
9789	<listitem>
9790	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
9791	</listitem>
9792
9793	<listitem>
9794	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
9795	</listitem>
9796
9797	<listitem>
9798	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
9799	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
9800	</listitem>
9801
9802	<listitem>
9803	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
9804	</listitem>
9805
9806	<listitem>
9807	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
9808	</listitem>
9809
9810	<listitem>
9811	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
9812	</listitem>
9813
9814	</itemizedlist></para>
9815
9816	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
9817
9818	<itemizedlist>
9819
9820	<listitem>
9821	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
9822	</listitem>
9823
9824	<listitem>
9825	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
9826	</listitem>
9827
9828	<listitem>
9829	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
9830	</listitem>
9831
9832	<listitem>
9833	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
9834	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
9835	</listitem>
9836
9837	<listitem>
9838	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
9839	restored</para>
9840	</listitem>
9841
9842	<listitem>
9843	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
9844	</listitem>
9845
9846	<listitem>
9847	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
9848	</listitem>
9849
9850	<listitem>
9851	<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>
9852	</listitem>
9853
9854	</itemizedlist>
9855
9856	</sect1>
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