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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>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
41	</listitem>
42
43	<listitem>
44	<para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
45	session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
54	attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
55	service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
56	</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	</itemizedlist>
60
61	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
62
63	<itemizedlist>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC
67	enabled</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x
72	guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch
81	(bug #10532)</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>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
94	hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
107	emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
112	transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
117	to change existing media geometry)
118	</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
123	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
128	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
133	by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
138	native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
143	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
148	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
149	option to show really all available details</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
154	the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
159	processes and/or guest files via
160	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes\|files></computeroutput>
161	</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
166	<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>\|
167	--session-name <name or pattern>\|--all</computeroutput>
168	</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
173	<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill\|close\|terminate --session-id <ID>\|
174	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
175	or
176	<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>\|
177	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
178	</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
183	<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
184	</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
193	</listitem>
194
195	<listitem>
196	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
201	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
206	by François Revol</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
211	hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
216	(bug #11962)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
221	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
226	with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Windows guests: ability to track guest user idle times through
231	the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	</itemizedlist>
235
236	</sect1>
237
238	<sect1>
239	<title>Version 4.2.16 (2013-07-04)</title>
240
241	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
242	added:</para>
243
244	<itemizedlist>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression;
248	bug #11895)</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off
253	after a Guru Mediation</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to
258	the VM</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive
263	attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with
288	<emphasis>VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool</emphasis>, remove it from the
289	<emphasis>pkgutil --pkgs</emphasis> list as well</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	</itemizedlist>
293	</sect1>
294
295	<sect1>
296	<title>Version 4.2.14 (2013-06-21)</title>
297
298	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
299	added:</para>
300
301	<itemizedlist>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression;
309	bug #11674)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows
318	hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the
327	server) if the VM is paused</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM
332	with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain
337	devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	<listitem>
345	<para>BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table
346	(fixes NetWare 6.x guests)</para>
347	</listitem>
348
349	<listitem>
350	<para>BIOS: don't use the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> / <emphasis>LEAVE</emphasis>
351	instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by
352	certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>DMI: allow to configure <emphasis>DmiChassisType</emphasis>
357	(bug #11832)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and
362	asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by
367	Windows 8 (bug #11502)</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels
372	disk images (bug #9617)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>3D: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	<listitem>
380	<para>3D: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older
381	versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running
386	VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
387	(bug #11765)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties
392	persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)</para>
393	</listitem>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call
401	<emphasis>Appliance::interpret()</emphasis> (bug #10845)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file
406	name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references
411	(bug #10689)</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
420	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	<listitem>
424	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using
425	<emphasis>sethdparentuuid</emphasis></para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of
430	automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
431	(bug #11610)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate
436	in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the
437	<emphasis>--silent</emphasis> command line option is specified</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the
442	unattended case</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button
447	in seamless mode for some themes</para>
448	</listitem>
449
450	<listitem>
451	<para>Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon
456	credentials if current ones were not processed yet</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>Windows Additions installer: added the <emphasis>/with_wddm</emphasis>
461	switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default</para>
462	</listitem>
463
464	<listitem>
465	<para>Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in
466	information label of the lightdm greeter</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	<listitem>
470	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu
471	kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel
472	build fix; bug #11709)</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in
477	drag'and'drop mode</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two
486	guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)</para>
487	</listitem>
488
489	<listitem>
490	<para>Guest Additions: fixed guest process timeout / kill handling</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	</itemizedlist>
494	</sect1>
495
496	<sect1>
497	<title>Version 4.2.12 (2013-04-12)</title>
498
499	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
500	added:</para>
501
502	<itemizedlist>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if
506	nested paging is disabled</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain
519	disabled on visual-mode change</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging
524	in different visual-modes</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless
529	screens were represented by fullscreen windows</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen
534	configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should
539	have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on
544	content/window resize</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration
553	if the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle
558	partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)</para>
559	</listitem>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size
563	changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts
568	due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate
573	after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4):
578	corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles</para>
579	</listitem>
580
581	<listitem>
582	<para>Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect
583	time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back
584	to Jan 1 1970</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software
589	RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created
594	and the VM was running before</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>controlvm nicpromisc</emphasis>
599	(bug #11423)</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
604	guestmemoryballoon</emphasis> of the VM isn't running (bug #11639)</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would
609	affect all clients (bug #11644)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated
614	by guest commands and do NLS conversion</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer
619	kernels if the <emphasis>CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS</emphasis>
620	config option is enabled (bug #11664)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based
625	guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile
634	fix (bug #11634)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using
639	LightDM as the display manager</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable
644	of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
645	(bug #6118)</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	</itemizedlist>
653
654	</sect1>
655
656	<sect1>
657	<title>Version 4.2.10 (2013-03-05)</title>
658
659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
660	added:</para>
661
662	<itemizedlist>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain
670	conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for
675	example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not
680	currently active</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with
685	Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified
690	with <emphasis>export --eulafile (bug #11528)</emphasis></para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders
699	guest kernel module (bug #11390)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is
704	not available (bug #8638)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	</itemizedlist>
712	</sect1>
713
714	<sect1>
715	<title>Version 4.2.8 (2013-02-20)</title>
716
717	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
718	added:</para>
719
720	<itemizedlist>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>VMM: fixed a guest crash with a huge amount of guest RAM on
724	VT-x hosts (bug #11306)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog
729	(bug #10982)</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account
734	during the language switch (bug #11342)</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>GUI: the <emphasis>take guest screenshot</emphasis> dialog sometimes
739	had no keyboard input available on Windows host</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>Main/Machine: fix the generation of a spurious event for inaccessible
744	VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation
745	with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression; bug
746	#11323)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain
751	conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)</para>
752	</listitem>
753
754	<listitem>
755	<para>Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for
756	active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated
757	when the associated metric is enabled via <emphasis>setupMetrics</emphasis></para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under
762	certain conditions</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under
767	certain circumstances (bug #11344)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	<listitem>
771	<para>Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
772	(4.2.6 regression, bug #11359)</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	<listitem>
776	<para>Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI
777	targets</para>
778	</listitem>
779
780	<listitem>
781	<para>Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with
782	Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
783	</listitem>
784
785	<listitem>
786	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation
787	for IPv6 (bug #9380)</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings
796	file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash during <emphasis>screenshotpng</emphasis>
805	if there is no display (bug #11363)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong
810	kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux
811	host kernel (bug #11035)</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module
816	load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	<listitem>
820	<para>Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox
825	kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100%
830	when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)</para>
831	</listitem>
832
833	<listitem>
834	<para>Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from
835	a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
836	</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed
841	via guest control</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
846	(bug #10970)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with
851	large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions
860	(bug #10987)</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv
865	for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with
870	X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	</itemizedlist>
874
875	</sect1>
876
877	<sect1>
878	<title>Version 4.2.6 (2012-12-19)</title>
879
880	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
881	added:</para>
882
883	<itemizedlist>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
887	(bug #11256)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable <emphasis>MONITOR</emphasis>
892	only for certain CPUs (bug #9460)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers
897	(4.2.0 regression)</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts
902	(4.2.0 regression)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
907	(bug #11095)</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)</para>
912	</listitem>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead
924	to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>3D Support: several fixes</para>
933	</listitem>
934
935	<listitem>
936	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
937	(bug #11156)</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>VGA: fix for double scan text modes</para>
942	</listitem>
943
944	<listitem>
945	<para>USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service
946	of <emphasis>DEVICE POWER</emphasis> requests (Windows hosts only;
947	bugs #10021, #11056)</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	<listitem>
959	<para>Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM
964	settings (4.2.0 regression)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters
969	in Session Information dialog (GUI)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>network rate</emphasis> and
974	<emphasis>disk usage</emphasis> metrics</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>BIOS: fix for El Torito</para>
983	</listitem>
984
985	<listitem>
986	<para>Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does
987	not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent
988	inconsitent saved states (bug #11147)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images</para>
993	</listitem>
994
995	<listitem>
996	<para>VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot
997	information</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all
1002	places dealing with media</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings
1007	file when doing <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> (bug #11212)</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>VBoxManage: <emphasis>metrics collect</emphasis> now properly handles
1012	<computeroutput>'CPU/MHz'</computeroutput> and
1013	<computeroutput>'Net/*/LinkSpeed'</computeroutput> metrics</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of
1018	<emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> works now in all safe cases</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>storageattach --medium additions</emphasis>
1023	as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware
1028	products (bug #10905)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking
1033	connections in conntrack (bug #11178)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the
1038	vminfo service of VBoxService</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain
1043	conditions (bug #11291)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories
1052	are reachable when starting VBox services</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations,
1057	thanks to all contributors!</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not
1066	available</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000
1071	guests (bug #11253)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077	</itemizedlist>
1078
1079	</sect1>
1080
1081	<sect1>
1082	<title>Version 4.2.4 (2012-10-26)</title>
1083
1084	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1085	added:</para>
1086
1087	<itemizedlist>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
1091	(4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain
1096	conditions (OS X hosts only)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of
1101	ballooning module</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the
1106	guest (bug #11082)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty
1123	error (Windows hosts only)</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	</itemizedlist>
1135	</sect1>
1136
1137	<sect1>
1138	<title>Version 4.2.2 (2012-10-18)</title>
1139
1140	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1141	added:</para>
1142
1143	<itemizedlist>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)</para>
1147	</listitem>
1148
1149	<listitem>
1150	<para>GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association
1159	(4.2 regression)</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the
1164	first VM was created (bug #10928)</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are
1169	full children list of the same group already</para>
1170	</listitem>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>GUI: added menu for runtime drag-and-drop option change</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change</para>
1178	</listitem>
1179
1180	<listitem>
1181	<para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering fullscreen-mode
1182	on Win host (bug #11051)</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>3D Support: <emphasis>DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP</emphasis> implementation
1191	fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929) </para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests
1196	where cancelled with asynchronous I/O disabled</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
1201	(bug #10898)</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only;
1206	bug #10128)</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is
1211	set to some unusual loopback value (bug #10864)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers
1216	(4.2 regression; bugs #10936, #10969, #10980)</para>
1217	</listitem>
1218
1219	<listitem>
1220	<para>ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs
1225	are available</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot
1230	device after a warm reboot</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border
1235	color</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
1244	(bug #10973)</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>VBoxManage: fixed parsing of <emphasis>storageattach --discard</emphasis>
1249	(bug #11023)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
1254	(bug #11065)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a
1259	guest process via guest control</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a
1268	machine was reset after a crash</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with
1281	old guest kernels</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
1286	(bug #10964)</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize
1291	issue for NT4 guests</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after
1304	all VMs started</para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	</itemizedlist>
1312
1313	</sect1>
1314
1315	<sect1>
1316
1317	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
1318
1319	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
1320	were added:</para>
1321
1322	<itemizedlist>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
1326	</listitem>
1327
1328	<listitem>
1329	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
1342	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
1347	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
1352	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
1357	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
1358	planned. (bug #81)</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
1367	documentation for more information</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	</itemizedlist>
1371
1372	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1373
1374	<itemizedlist>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
1378	on Mountain Lion</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
1383	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
1384	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
1389	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
1394	nested paging</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	<listitem>
1398	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
1399	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
1400	</listitem>
1401
1402	<listitem>
1403	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
1404	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
1409	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	<listitem>
1417	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
1422	</listitem>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
1438	</listitem>
1439
1440	<listitem>
1441	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
1442	</listitem>
1443
1444	<listitem>
1445	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
1446	guests</para>
1447	</listitem>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
1451	used ISO images</para>
1452	</listitem>
1453
1454	<listitem>
1455	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
1456	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
1457	</listitem>
1458
1459	<listitem>
1460	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
1461	(bug #9973)</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
1466	(bug #9864)</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
1471	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
1472	immediately</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
1477	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
1482	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
1483	any time using the VM menu</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
1516	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
1525	support for v2 images)</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
1534	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
1543	</listitem>
1544
1545	<listitem>
1546	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
1547	VirtualBox update</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
1552	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	</itemizedlist>
1560	</sect1>
1561
1562	<sect1>
1563	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
1564
1565	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1566	added:</para>
1567
1568	<itemizedlist>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
1572	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
1573	and others)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
1578	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
1579	</listitem>
1580
1581	<listitem>
1582	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
1583	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
1584	</listitem>
1585
1586	<listitem>
1587	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
1588	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
1593	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
1598	(bug #10631)</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
1603	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
1604	(bug #10624)</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
1613	updated (bug #9887)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
1618	</listitem>
1619
1620	</itemizedlist>
1621	</sect1>
1622
1623	<sect1>
1624	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
1625
1626	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1627	added:</para>
1628
1629	<itemizedlist>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
1633	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
1638	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
1643	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
1644	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
1649	guests in rare cases</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
1658	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
1663	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
1664	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
1677	reason (bug #6189)</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
1686	paused</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
1691	(bug #10267)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
1700	(bug #10418)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
1705	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
1706	(bug #10581)</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
1711	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
1716	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
1717	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
1718	</listitem>
1719
1720	<listitem>
1721	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
1722	</listitem>
1723
1724	</itemizedlist>
1725
1726	</sect1>
1727
1728	<sect1>
1729	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
1730
1731	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1732	added:</para>
1733
1734	<itemizedlist>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
1738	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
1739	(bug #3783)</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
1748	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>Windows Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	</itemizedlist>
1756
1757	</sect1>
1758
1759	<sect1>
1760	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
1761
1762	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1763	added:</para>
1764
1765	<itemizedlist>
1766
1767	<listitem>
1768	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
1769	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
1770	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
1775	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
1780	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
1789	</listitem>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
1793	4.1.10 regression)</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
1802	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
1811	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
1816	4.1.10 regression)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
1821	closed (bug #6473)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
1826	properly installed</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	</itemizedlist>
1834	</sect1>
1835
1836	<sect1>
1837	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
1838
1839	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1840	added:</para>
1841
1842	<itemizedlist>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
1846	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
1851	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
1856	fusion</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
1861	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
1866	and network mask attributes</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
1871	(bug #10030)</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
1876	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
1889	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
1898	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
1903	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
1908	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
1937	in a zone</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
1946	(bug #9651)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
1955	#10010)</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
1960	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
1965	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
1974	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
1979	(bug #10151)</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
1984	guests</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
1989	</listitem>
1990
1991	<listitem>
1992	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	</itemizedlist>
2000	</sect1>
2001
2002	<sect1>
2003	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
2004
2005	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2006	added:</para>
2007
2008	<itemizedlist>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
2012	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
2021	(bug #9642)</para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
2026	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
2027	</para>
2028	</listitem>
2029
2030	<listitem>
2031	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
2032	</listitem>
2033
2034	<listitem>
2035	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
2036	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
2037	</listitem>
2038
2039	<listitem>
2040	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
2041	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
2042	</listitem>
2043
2044	<listitem>
2045	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
2058	circumstances</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
2067	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
2072	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
2073	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
2074	and for 3D support in general</para>
2075	</listitem>
2076
2077	<listitem>
2078	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
2091	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	</itemizedlist>
2095	</sect1>
2096
2097	<sect1>
2098	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
2099
2100	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2101	added:</para>
2102
2103	<itemizedlist>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
2111	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
2116	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
2121	certain guests</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
2130	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
2131	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
2136	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
2145	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
2154	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
2159	guests</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
2164	folders</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
2169	shared folders</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
2174	users and stale sessions</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
2179	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	</itemizedlist>
2183	</sect1>
2184
2185	<sect1>
2186	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
2187
2188	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2189	added:</para>
2190
2191	<itemizedlist>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
2195	bug #9458)</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
2200	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
2205	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
2214	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
2215	</listitem>
2216
2217	<listitem>
2218	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
2219	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
2224	(bug #9308)</para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	<listitem>
2228	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
2229	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
2234	(bug #9503)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
2239	(bug #9242)</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
2244	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
2245	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
2254	images</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
2259	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
2264	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
2269	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
2274	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
2275	</listitem>
2276
2277	<listitem>
2278	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
2279	#9387)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
2284	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
2289	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
2290	</listitem>
2291
2292	<listitem>
2293	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
2294	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
2299	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
2312	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
2317	(bug #1578)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
2322	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
2327	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
2332	(bug #9535)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
2337	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
2342	help file (bug #9646)</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	<listitem>
2346	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
2347	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
2352	console window (bug #3549)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
2357	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
2362	</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
2367	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
2368	</para>
2369	</listitem>
2370
2371	<listitem>
2372	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
2373	(bug #6229)
2374	</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
2379	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
2384	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
2389	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
2394	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
2399	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
2404	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
2409	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
2414	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
2415	</listitem>
2416
2417	</itemizedlist>
2418	</sect1>
2419
2420	<sect1>
2421	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
2422
2423	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2424	added:</para>
2425
2426	<itemizedlist>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
2434	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
2435	</listitem>
2436
2437	<listitem>
2438	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
2439	</listitem>
2440
2441	<listitem>
2442	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
2443	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
2444	</listitem>
2445
2446	<listitem>
2447	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
2448	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
2453	a live snapshot</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
2458	due to a library version conflict</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
2463	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
2464	</listitem>
2465
2466	<listitem>
2467	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
2468	at a time by default</para>
2469	</listitem>
2470
2471	<listitem>
2472	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
2473	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
2474	#9368)</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
2479	registered (bug #9303)</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
2484	VMs</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
2489	creation (bug #9379)</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
2494	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
2495	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
2500	(bug #9308)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
2505	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
2514	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
2519	(bug #9242)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
2524	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
2529	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
2534	USB devices</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
2539	and warn about it</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
2552	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
2557	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
2562	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
2567	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
2572	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
2577	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
2582	2.6.37 and above</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	</itemizedlist>
2586	</sect1>
2587
2588	<sect1>
2589	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
2590
2591	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2592	were added:</para>
2593
2594	<itemizedlist>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
2598	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
2599	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
2600	</listitem>
2601
2602	<listitem>
2603	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
2604	</listitem>
2605
2606	<listitem>
2607	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
2612	bug #7822)</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
2621	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
2626	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
2627	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
2628	anymore)</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
2633	queried separately by the frontends</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	<listitem>
2637	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
2638	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
2639	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
2644	</para>
2645	</listitem>
2646
2647	<listitem>
2648	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
2649	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
2650	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
2655	with VBoxManage</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
2660	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663
2664	</itemizedlist>
2665
2666	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2667
2668	<itemizedlist>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
2672	</listitem>
2673
2674	<listitem>
2675	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
2684	of the current state</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
2693	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
2698	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
2699	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
2704	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
2717	dialog</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
2722	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
2723	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
2728	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
2733	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
2738	be a valid UUID</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
2743	twice in a VM configuration</para>
2744	</listitem>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
2748	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
2749	cases</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
2754	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
2755	improve performance</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
2760	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
2761	on a temporary basis</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
2766	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
2767	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
2772	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
2777	images in VDI format</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
2782	VMDK format</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
2787	controller (bug #8592)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
2812	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
2817	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
2822	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
2827	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
2832	RDP clients</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
2841	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
2846	be more robust when connections fail</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
2851	simultaneously</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
2856	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
2857	location values in many places</para>
2858	</listitem>
2859
2860	<listitem>
2861	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
2866	builds</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
2875	window (bug #4491)</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
2880	removing a VM</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
2893	166 and above)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
2898	hosts</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
2907	from the host</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	</itemizedlist>
2915
2916	</sect1>
2917
2918	<sect1>
2919	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
2920
2921	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2922	added:</para>
2923
2924	<itemizedlist>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
2932	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
2937	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
2942	a live snapshot</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
2947	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
2960	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
2965	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
2970	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
2979	images</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
2984	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
2988	registered (bug #9303)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
2993	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
2994	</listitem>
2995
2996	<listitem>
2997	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
3002	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
3007	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
3016	(bug #9370)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
3021	(bug #9535)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
3026	(bug #1578)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
3031	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
3036	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
3037	</para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
3042	</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
3047	2.6.37 and above</para>
3048	</listitem>
3049
3050	<listitem>
3051	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
3052	(bug #6229)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
3057	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	</itemizedlist>
3061	</sect1>
3062
3063	<sect1>
3064	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
3065
3066	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3067	added:</para>
3068
3069	<itemizedlist>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
3077	166 and above)</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
3082	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
3083	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
3088	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
3093	controller (bug #8592)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
3102	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
3107	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
3112	builds</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	</itemizedlist>
3120	</sect1>
3121	<sect1>
3122	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
3123
3124	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3125	added:</para>
3126
3127	<itemizedlist>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
3139	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
3144	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
3153	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
3162	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
3167	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
3180	file was not written during export</para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
3185	</listitem>
3186
3187	<listitem>
3188	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
3189	</listitem>
3190
3191	<listitem>
3192	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
3197	binaries</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
3206	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
3211	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
3212	</listitem>
3213
3214	<listitem>
3215	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
3220	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	</itemizedlist>
3224	</sect1>
3225
3226	<sect1>
3227	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
3228
3229	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3230	added:</para>
3231
3232	<itemizedlist>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
3236	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
3241	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
3246	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
3251	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
3256	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
3261	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
3266	(Windows hosts only)</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
3271	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
3276	</listitem>
3277
3278	<listitem>
3279	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
3284	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
3289	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
3290	</listitem>
3291
3292	<listitem>
3293	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
3302	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
3307	(Windows hosts only)</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
3312	window</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
3317	Fedora 15</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
3322	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
3327	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
3332	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
3333	</listitem>
3334
3335	<listitem>
3336	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
3337	</listitem>
3338
3339	<listitem>
3340	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
3341	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
3342	</listitem>
3343
3344	</itemizedlist>
3345	</sect1>
3346
3347	<sect1>
3348	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
3349
3350	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3351	added:</para>
3352
3353	<itemizedlist>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
3357	a VMM from a saved state</para>
3358	</listitem>
3359
3360	<listitem>
3361	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
3362	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
3363	</listitem>
3364
3365	<listitem>
3366	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
3367	(bug #8006)</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
3372	(bug #8726)</para>
3373	</listitem>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
3385	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
3386	</listitem>
3387
3388	<listitem>
3389	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
3390	(bug #8469)</para>
3391	</listitem>
3392
3393	<listitem>
3394	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
3395	selectors</para>
3396	</listitem>
3397
3398	<listitem>
3399	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
3400	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
3405	folder (bug #8673)</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
3410	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
3419	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	<listitem>
3427	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
3432	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
3433	</listitem>
3434
3435	<listitem>
3436	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
3437	I/O error occurred</para>
3438	</listitem>
3439
3440	<listitem>
3441	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
3442	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
3447	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
3448	</listitem>
3449
3450	<listitem>
3451	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
3452	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
3453	if no medium is present</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
3462	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
3467	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
3472	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
3481	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
3486	library (bug #8063)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
3491	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
3508	changed on import</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
3517	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
3522	(bug #8593)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
3527	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
3532	captured</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
3537	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
3542	</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
3547	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
3552	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	<listitem>
3556	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
3557	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
3558	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
3563	to unkillable VM processes</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
3572	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
3577	on legacy Windows versions</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
3582	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
3595	</listitem>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
3603	(bug #7946)</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	</itemizedlist>
3619
3620	</sect1>
3621
3622	<sect1>
3623	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
3624
3625	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3626	added:</para>
3627
3628	<itemizedlist>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
3632	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
3637	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
3642	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
3647	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
3652	number of host network interfaces</para>
3653	</listitem>
3654
3655	<listitem>
3656	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
3657	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
3658	</listitem>
3659
3660	<listitem>
3661	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
3666	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
3671	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
3676	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
3685	(bug #6577)</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
3690	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
3691	(bug #8235)</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
3696	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
3697	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
3706	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
3715	(bug #7966)</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
3732	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
3745	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
3750	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
3751	</listitem>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
3759	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
3764	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
3765	(bug #8122)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
3770	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
3783	(bug #1548)</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
3792	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
3801	(bug #8231)</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
3806	11.04 Alpha</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
3811	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
3816	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
3821	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
3826	with VBoxGINA</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	</itemizedlist>
3830
3831	</sect1>
3832
3833	<sect1>
3834	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
3835
3836	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3837	added:</para>
3838
3839	<itemizedlist>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
3843	settings vanished</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
3848	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
3853	created (bug #8031)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
3862	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
3867	an extension pack</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
3872	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
3881	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
3886	host-only interface</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
3891	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
3896	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
3897	</listitem>
3898
3899	<listitem>
3900	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
3901	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
3906	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
3911	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
3924	guests</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
3937	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
3938	</listitem>
3939
3940	<listitem>
3941	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
3942	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
3947	a VM start</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
3952	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
3957	(bug #6067)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
3962	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
3967	not saved to machine XML</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
3972	#7983)</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
3977	#7981)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
3986	regression)</para>
3987	</listitem>
3988
3989	<listitem>
3990	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
3991	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
3996	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	</itemizedlist>
4000
4001	</sect1>
4002
4003	<sect1>
4004	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
4005
4006	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4007	were added:</para>
4008
4009	<itemizedlist>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
4021	<itemizedlist>
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
4040	states, and optionally including attached
4041	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
4042	can do the same now)</para>
4043	</listitem>
4044
4045	<listitem>
4046	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	</itemizedlist>
4050	</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>New virtual hardware:
4059	<itemizedlist>
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
4062	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
4067	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069	</itemizedlist>
4070	</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
4075	<itemizedlist>
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
4082	</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
4087	now</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	</itemizedlist>
4095	</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
4100	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
4105	Parallels images</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
4114	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
4119	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	</itemizedlist>
4123
4124	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4125
4126	<itemizedlist>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
4130	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
4139	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
4144	(bug #1657)</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
4157	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
4162	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
4163	</listitem>
4164
4165	<listitem>
4166	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
4167	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
4168	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
4173	again (bug #6864)</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
4178	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
4183	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
4200	</listitem>
4201
4202	<listitem>
4203	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
4216	(bug #7058)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
4221	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
4226	circumstances</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
4231	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
4232	#5578)
4233	</para>
4234	</listitem>
4235
4236	<listitem>
4237	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
4238	</listitem>
4239
4240	<listitem>
4241	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
4242	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
4243	</listitem>
4244
4245	<listitem>
4246	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
4251	#6760)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
4256	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
4261	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
4266	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
4275	file</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
4280	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	</itemizedlist>
4284
4285	</sect1>
4286
4287	<sect1>
4288	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
4289
4290	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4291	added:</para>
4292
4293	<itemizedlist>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
4297	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
4302	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
4303	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
4320	the VM is running</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
4325	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
4326	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
4327	starting from a saved state</para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	<listitem>
4331	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
4352	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
4357	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
4362	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
4371	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
4372	</para>
4373	</listitem>
4374
4375	<listitem>
4376	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
4377	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
4378	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
4383	only)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
4388	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
4405	state (bug #4124)</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
4410	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
4419	(bug #2996)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
4424	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
4433	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
4438	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
4443	user accounts for VM information</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	</itemizedlist>
4447
4448	</sect1>
4449
4450	<sect1>
4451	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
4452
4453	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4454	added:</para>
4455
4456	<itemizedlist>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
4460	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
4477	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
4482	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
4483	</listitem>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
4487	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
4492	(bug #4952)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
4497	bug #6122)</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
4502	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
4507	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
4508	(Linux hosts only)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
4517	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
4522	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
4527	canceled</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
4548	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
4557	(Linux hosts only)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
4562	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
4571	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
4572	</listitem>
4573
4574	<listitem>
4575	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
4580	circumstances</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
4585	printers</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
4594	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
4599	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
4600	</listitem>
4601
4602	<listitem>
4603	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
4604	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
4605	circumstances</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
4610	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
4615	as supported extension</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
4620	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
4625	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
4634	(bug #7366)</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
4643	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
4644	</listitem>
4645
4646	<listitem>
4647	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
4648	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
4649	</listitem>
4650
4651	<listitem>
4652	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
4653	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
4654	</listitem>
4655
4656	<listitem>
4657	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
4658	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
4663	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
4676	more than one environment variable</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
4681	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
4682	</listitem>
4683
4684	<listitem>
4685	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
4686	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
4691	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
4696	enumerating logged in users</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
4701	</listitem>
4702
4703	<listitem>
4704	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
4713	in the event of a VM crash</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
4722	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
4727	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
4732	(bug #7448)</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	</itemizedlist>
4748
4749	</sect1>
4750
4751	<sect1>
4752	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
4753
4754	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4755	added:</para>
4756
4757	<itemizedlist>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
4761	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
4770	bug #6809)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	<listitem>
4782	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
4783	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
4788	changes</para>
4789	</listitem>
4790
4791	<listitem>
4792	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
4797	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
4802	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
4803	</listitem>
4804
4805	<listitem>
4806	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
4811	</listitem>
4812
4813	<listitem>
4814	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
4815	</listitem>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
4823	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
4824	</listitem>
4825
4826	<listitem>
4827	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
4832	(bug #6832)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
4837	guests</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
4846	without external tools and tricks</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
4851	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
4860	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
4865	shutdown</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
4870	fixes</para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
4875	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
4876	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
4877	</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
4882	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
4887	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
4892	</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
4905	</listitem>
4906
4907	</itemizedlist>
4908
4909	</sect1>
4910
4911	<sect1>
4912	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
4913
4914	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4915	added:</para>
4916
4917	<itemizedlist>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
4921	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
4926	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
4931	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
4952	assigned</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
4957	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
4962	multiple screens are enabled</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
4971	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
4976	again (bug #7022).
4977	</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
4982	(bug #6768)</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
4987	(bug #6927)</para>
4988	</listitem>
4989
4990	<listitem>
4991	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
4992	bug #7031)</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
4997	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
5002	bug #6987)</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
5015	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
5024	installation (bug #5101)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
5033	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
5034	bug #6872)</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
5043	(performance tweak)</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
5048	is currently paused</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
5053	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
5062	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
5067	not properly saved</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
5072	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
5089	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
5094	</listitem>
5095
5096	<listitem>
5097	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
5098	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
5103	(bug #5251)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
5108	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	<listitem>
5116	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
5121	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	</itemizedlist>
5137	</sect1>
5138
5139	<sect1>
5140	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
5141
5142	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5143	added:</para>
5144
5145	<itemizedlist>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
5149	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
5154	</listitem>
5155
5156	<listitem>
5157	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
5158	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
5163	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
5172	again (bug #6864)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
5177	applications (bug #5236)</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
5186	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
5187	</listitem>
5188
5189	<listitem>
5190	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	</itemizedlist>
5194
5195	</sect1>
5196
5197	<sect1>
5198	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
5199
5200	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5201	added:</para>
5202
5203	<itemizedlist>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
5211	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
5220	state</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
5237	</listitem>
5238
5239	<listitem>
5240	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
5241	</listitem>
5242
5243	<listitem>
5244	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
5249	</listitem>
5250
5251	<listitem>
5252	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
5253	</listitem>
5254
5255	<listitem>
5256	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
5257	</listitem>
5258
5259	<listitem>
5260	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
5265	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
5270	(bug #6784)</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
5283	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
5296	host only</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
5301	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
5306	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
5315	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
5320	</listitem>
5321
5322	<listitem>
5323	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
5328	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
5329	</listitem>
5330
5331	<listitem>
5332	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
5333	</listitem>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
5345	(bug #6714)</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	<listitem>
5357	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
5366	</listitem>
5367
5368	</itemizedlist>
5369
5370	</sect1>
5371
5372	<sect1>
5373	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
5374
5375	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5376	were added:</para>
5377
5378	<itemizedlist>
5379
5380	<listitem>
5381	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
5382	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
5383	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
5392	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
5397	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
5398	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
5403	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
5404	</listitem>
5405
5406	<listitem>
5407	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
5408	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
5409	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
5410	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
5411	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
5420	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
5425	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
5426	</listitem>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
5446	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
5447	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
5452	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	</itemizedlist>
5456
5457	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5458
5459	<itemizedlist>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
5463	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
5472	VM</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
5477	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
5482	#1669)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
5487	#6442)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
5492	combination (bug #684)</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
5497	the VM from the GUI</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
5502	medium is not accessible</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
5511	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
5516	#3106)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
5521	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
5522	it</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
5535	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
5540	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
5541	</listitem>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
5553	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
5562	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
5563	</listitem>
5564
5565	<listitem>
5566	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
5571	in VirtualBox</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
5576	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
5581	VirtualBox</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
5590	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	</itemizedlist>
5594	</sect1>
5595
5596	<sect1>
5597	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
5598
5599	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5600	added:</para>
5601
5602	<itemizedlist>
5603
5604	<listitem>
5605	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
5606	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
5607	</listitem>
5608
5609	<listitem>
5610	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
5619	only) </para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
5624	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
5629	interface version</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
5634	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
5635	slot empty</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
5640	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
5641	(bug #4220)</para>
5642	</listitem>
5643
5644	<listitem>
5645	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
5650	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
5655	using the drivers from LSI</para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
5660	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
5665	attached</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
5670	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
5671	</listitem>
5672
5673	<listitem>
5674	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
5679	booting from SCSI devices</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
5684	is bug #6408)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
5693	fail to initialize</para>
5694	</listitem>
5695
5696	<listitem>
5697	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
5702	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
5707	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
5708	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
5717	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
5722	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
5727	(bug #6435)</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
5732	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
5737	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
5738	(bug #6488)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
5743	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
5748	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
5753	#5227)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
5758	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
5767	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	</itemizedlist>
5771	</sect1>
5772
5773	<sect1>
5774	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
5775
5776	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5777	added:</para>
5778
5779	<itemizedlist>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
5783	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
5788	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
5793	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
5798	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
5819	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
5820	</listitem>
5821
5822	<listitem>
5823	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
5824	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
5829	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
5842	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
5843	</listitem>
5844
5845	<listitem>
5846	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
5847	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
5848	calls (bug #6165)</para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
5853	(bug #5297)</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
5858	(bug #4962)</para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
5863	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
5868	(bug #6176)</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
5873	certain circumstances</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
5878	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
5879	</listitem>
5880
5881	<listitem>
5882	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
5883	</listitem>
5884
5885	<listitem>
5886	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
5891	(bug #3571)</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
5896	devices</para>
5897	</listitem>
5898
5899	<listitem>
5900	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
5901	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
5902	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
5907	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
5916	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
5921	response</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
5926	</listitem>
5927
5928	<listitem>
5929	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
5930	</listitem>
5931
5932	<listitem>
5933	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
5942	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
5955	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	<listitem>
5967	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
5972	</listitem>
5973
5974	</itemizedlist>
5975	</sect1>
5976
5977	<sect1>
5978	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
5979
5980	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5981	added:</para>
5982
5983	<itemizedlist>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
5995	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
6000	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
6005	(bug #3945)</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
6010	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
6015	and AMD-V only) </para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
6024	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
6025	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
6026	</listitem>
6027
6028	<listitem>
6029	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
6030	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
6031	</listitem>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
6035	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
6040	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
6045	snapshots command</para>
6046	</listitem>
6047
6048	<listitem>
6049	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
6054	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
6059	</listitem>
6060
6061	<listitem>
6062	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
6063	</listitem>
6064
6065	<listitem>
6066	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
6071	(KWin bug)</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
6076	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	<listitem>
6084	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
6093	</listitem>
6094
6095	<listitem>
6096	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
6097	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
6102	bug #5787)</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
6107	DHCP requests</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
6112	(bug #3217)</para>
6113	</listitem>
6114
6115	<listitem>
6116	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
6117	range (bug #5923)</para>
6118	</listitem>
6119
6120	<listitem>
6121	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
6122	</listitem>
6123
6124	<listitem>
6125	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	<listitem>
6129	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
6130	</listitem>
6131
6132	<listitem>
6133	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
6138	file (bug #5681)</para>
6139	</listitem>
6140
6141	<listitem>
6142	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
6143	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
6144	</listitem>
6145
6146	<listitem>
6147	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
6148	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
6149	</listitem>
6150
6151	<listitem>
6152	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
6153	regression)</para>
6154	</listitem>
6155
6156	<listitem>
6157	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
6158	</listitem>
6159
6160	<listitem>
6161	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
6170	</listitem>
6171
6172	<listitem>
6173	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
6174	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
6175	</listitem>
6176
6177	<listitem>
6178	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
6187	</listitem>
6188
6189	<listitem>
6190	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
6191	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
6192	</listitem>
6193
6194	<listitem>
6195	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
6196	</listitem>
6197
6198	<listitem>
6199	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
6200	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
6201	</listitem>
6202
6203	<listitem>
6204	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
6209	</listitem>
6210
6211	<listitem>
6212	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
6213	</listitem>
6214
6215	<listitem>
6216	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
6217	(bug #5731)</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	<listitem>
6221	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
6222	again</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	</itemizedlist>
6226
6227	</sect1>
6228
6229	<sect1>
6230	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
6231
6232	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6233	added:</para>
6234
6235	<itemizedlist>
6236
6237	<listitem>
6238	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
6239	</listitem>
6240
6241	<listitem>
6242	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
6243	</listitem>
6244
6245	<listitem>
6246	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	<listitem>
6250	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
6251	</listitem>
6252
6253	<listitem>
6254	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
6255	</listitem>
6256
6257	<listitem>
6258	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
6259	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
6260	</listitem>
6261
6262	<listitem>
6263	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
6264	</listitem>
6265
6266	<listitem>
6267	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
6268	</listitem>
6269
6270	<listitem>
6271	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
6272	</listitem>
6273
6274	<listitem>
6275	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
6276	</listitem>
6277
6278	<listitem>
6279	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
6280	</listitem>
6281
6282	<listitem>
6283	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
6284	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
6289	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
6290	</listitem>
6291
6292	<listitem>
6293	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
6294	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
6295	#1762)</para>
6296	</listitem>
6297
6298	<listitem>
6299	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
6300	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
6305	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
6310	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	<listitem>
6318	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
6323	several virtual CPU cores</para>
6324	</listitem>
6325
6326	<listitem>
6327	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
6336	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
6341	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
6342	</listitem>
6343
6344	<listitem>
6345	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	<listitem>
6349	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
6350	guests</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
6355	and on some 64bit guests</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>Linux Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
6360	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
6361	</listitem>
6362
6363	<listitem>
6364	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
6365	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
6366	</listitem>
6367
6368	<listitem>
6369	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
6370	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	<listitem>
6378	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
6379	</listitem>
6380
6381	<listitem>
6382	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
6383	</listitem>
6384
6385	<listitem>
6386	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
6391	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
6392	</listitem>
6393
6394	<listitem>
6395	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
6396	</listitem>
6397
6398	</itemizedlist>
6399
6400	</sect1>
6401
6402	<sect1>
6403	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
6404
6405	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6406	were added:</para>
6407
6408	<itemizedlist>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
6412	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
6417	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
6418	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
6419	</listitem>
6420
6421	<listitem>
6422	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
6423	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
6424	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
6429	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
6430	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
6435	running</para>
6436	</listitem>
6437
6438	<listitem>
6439	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
6440	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
6445	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
6446	</listitem>
6447
6448	<listitem>
6449	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
6450	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
6451	</listitem>
6452
6453	<listitem>
6454	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
6455	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
6456	</listitem>
6457
6458	</itemizedlist>
6459
6460	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6461
6462	<itemizedlist>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
6470	</listitem>
6471
6472	<listitem>
6473	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
6474	</listitem>
6475
6476	<listitem>
6477	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
6478	(bug #5291)</para>
6479	</listitem>
6480
6481	<listitem>
6482	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
6483	</listitem>
6484
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
6495	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
6496	</listitem>
6497
6498	<listitem>
6499	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
6500	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
6501	</listitem>
6502
6503	<listitem>
6504	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
6505	</listitem>
6506
6507	<listitem>
6508	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
6513	</listitem>
6514
6515	<listitem>
6516	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
6517	</listitem>
6518
6519	<listitem>
6520	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
6521	</listitem>
6522
6523	<listitem>
6524	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
6525	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
6530	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
6535	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
6540	(bug #2723)</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
6549	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
6554	optional manifest file on import</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
6559	</listitem>
6560
6561	<listitem>
6562	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
6563	(bug #3773)</para>
6564	</listitem>
6565
6566	<listitem>
6567	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
6568	</listitem>
6569
6570	<listitem>
6571	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
6572	</listitem>
6573
6574	<listitem>
6575	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
6576	layout (bug #2302)</para>
6577	</listitem>
6578
6579	<listitem>
6580	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
6581	(bug #4866)</para>
6582	</listitem>
6583
6584	<listitem>
6585	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
6586	left click (bug #5049)</para>
6587	</listitem>
6588
6589	<listitem>
6590	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
6591	certain conditions</para>
6592	</listitem>
6593
6594	<listitem>
6595	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
6604	</listitem>
6605
6606	<listitem>
6607	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
6608	</listitem>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
6612	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	<listitem>
6616	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
6617	</listitem>
6618
6619	<listitem>
6620	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
6621	properties (bug #5337)</para>
6622	</listitem>
6623
6624	<listitem>
6625	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
6634	</listitem>
6635
6636	<listitem>
6637	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
6642	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
6647	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
6648	(bug #928)</para>
6649	</listitem>
6650
6651	<listitem>
6652	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
6653	</listitem>
6654
6655	</itemizedlist>
6656
6657	</sect1>
6658
6659	<sect1>
6660	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
6661
6662	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6663	added:</para>
6664
6665	<itemizedlist>
6666
6667	<listitem>
6668	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
6669	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
6674	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
6675	</listitem>
6676
6677	<listitem>
6678	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
6679	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
6680	</listitem>
6681
6682	<listitem>
6683	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
6684	enabled</para>
6685	</listitem>
6686
6687	<listitem>
6688	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
6689	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
6694	(bug #2676)</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
6699	is connected to a raw file</para>
6700	</listitem>
6701
6702	<listitem>
6703	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
6704	(bug #5355)</para>
6705	</listitem>
6706
6707	<listitem>
6708	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
6713	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
6718	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
6719	guest (bug #4496)</para>
6720	</listitem>
6721
6722	<listitem>
6723	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
6724	</listitem>
6725
6726	<listitem>
6727	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
6732	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
6733	</listitem>
6734
6735	<listitem>
6736	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
6737	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
6738	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
6739	</listitem>
6740
6741	</itemizedlist>
6742
6743	</sect1>
6744
6745	<sect1>
6746	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
6747
6748	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6749	added:</para>
6750
6751	<itemizedlist>
6752
6753	<listitem>
6754	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	<listitem>
6758	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
6763	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
6764	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
6765	</listitem>
6766
6767	<listitem>
6768	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
6769	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
6770	</listitem>
6771
6772	<listitem>
6773	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
6778	</listitem>
6779
6780	<listitem>
6781	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
6782	</listitem>
6783
6784	<listitem>
6785	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
6786	</listitem>
6787
6788	<listitem>
6789	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
6790	</listitem>
6791
6792	<listitem>
6793	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
6794	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
6795	</listitem>
6796
6797	<listitem>
6798	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
6807	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
6808	</listitem>
6809
6810	<listitem>
6811	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
6812	</listitem>
6813
6814	<listitem>
6815	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
6816	exhaustion</para>
6817	</listitem>
6818
6819	<listitem>
6820	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
6821	</listitem>
6822
6823	<listitem>
6824	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
6825	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
6826	</listitem>
6827
6828	<listitem>
6829	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
6830	folders (bug #4106)</para>
6831	</listitem>
6832
6833	<listitem>
6834	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
6835	folders (bug #4299)</para>
6836	</listitem>
6837
6838	<listitem>
6839	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
6840	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
6841	(bug #2921)</para>
6842	</listitem>
6843
6844	<listitem>
6845	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
6846	hosts only)</para>
6847	</listitem>
6848
6849	<listitem>
6850	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
6851	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
6852	</listitem>
6853
6854	<listitem>
6855	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
6856	</listitem>
6857
6858	<listitem>
6859	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
6860	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
6869	image inconsistency </para>
6870	</listitem>
6871
6872	<listitem>
6873	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
6878	</listitem>
6879
6880	<listitem>
6881	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
6882	(bug #2025)</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
6887	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
6888	</listitem>
6889
6890	</itemizedlist>
6891
6892	</sect1>
6893
6894	<sect1>
6895	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
6896
6897	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6898	added:</para>
6899
6900	<itemizedlist>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
6904	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
6905	</listitem>
6906
6907	<listitem>
6908	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
6909	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
6914	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
6915	</listitem>
6916
6917	<listitem>
6918	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
6923	software virtualization only) </para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
6928	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
6933	with root privileges</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
6938	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
6943	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
6944	</listitem>
6945
6946	<listitem>
6947	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
6948	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
6949	</listitem>
6950
6951	<listitem>
6952	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
6953	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
6954	selector (bug #5063)</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
6959	available</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
6964	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
6969	networking (bug #4775)</para>
6970	</listitem>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
6974	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
6979	(bug #4907)</para>
6980	</listitem>
6981
6982	<listitem>
6983	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
6984	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	<listitem>
6988	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
6989	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
6990	</listitem>
6991
6992	<listitem>
6993	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
6994	</listitem>
6995
6996	<listitem>
6997	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
7010	are installed</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
7015	(bug #4771)</para>
7016	</listitem>
7017
7018	<listitem>
7019	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
7024	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
7025	</listitem>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
7029	command</para>
7030	</listitem>
7031
7032	<listitem>
7033	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
7034	</listitem>
7035
7036	<listitem>
7037	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
7038	</listitem>
7039
7040	<listitem>
7041	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
7042	(bug #5089)</para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	</itemizedlist>
7050
7051	</sect1>
7052
7053	<sect1>
7054	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
7055
7056	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7057	added:</para>
7058
7059	<itemizedlist>
7060
7061	<listitem>
7062	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
7063	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
7064	</listitem>
7065
7066	<listitem>
7067	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
7068	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
7069	</listitem>
7070
7071	<listitem>
7072	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
7073	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
7078	guests (bug #2258)</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
7083	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
7092	</listitem>
7093
7094	<listitem>
7095	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
7096	</listitem>
7097
7098	<listitem>
7099	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
7100	</listitem>
7101
7102	<listitem>
7103	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
7108	onlined or offlined</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
7117	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
7118	</listitem>
7119
7120	<listitem>
7121	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
7122	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
7123	</listitem>
7124
7125	<listitem>
7126	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
7127	</listitem>
7128
7129	<listitem>
7130	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
7131	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
7132	</listitem>
7133
7134	<listitem>
7135	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
7136	</listitem>
7137
7138	<listitem>
7139	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
7140	</listitem>
7141
7142	<listitem>
7143	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
7152	</listitem>
7153
7154	<listitem>
7155	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
7156	filters in machine settings XML</para>
7157	</listitem>
7158
7159	<listitem>
7160	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
7161	</listitem>
7162
7163	<listitem>
7164	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
7165	</listitem>
7166
7167	<listitem>
7168	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
7169	</listitem>
7170
7171	<listitem>
7172	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
7173	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
7174	</listitem>
7175
7176	<listitem>
7177	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
7178	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
7179	</listitem>
7180
7181	<listitem>
7182	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
7191	</listitem>
7192
7193	<listitem>
7194	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
7195	</listitem>
7196
7197	<listitem>
7198	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
7207	</listitem>
7208
7209	<listitem>
7210	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
7211	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
7212	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
7213	phase collapse</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
7218	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
7223	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
7224	</listitem>
7225
7226	<listitem>
7227	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
7232	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
7237	interface bringup on Linux</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
7246	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
7247	#4698, #4790)</para>
7248	</listitem>
7249
7250	<listitem>
7251	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
7252	less than the configured range</para>
7253	</listitem>
7254
7255	<listitem>
7256	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
7257	</listitem>
7258
7259	<listitem>
7260	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
7261	</listitem>
7262
7263	<listitem>
7264	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
7273	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
7274	</listitem>
7275
7276	<listitem>
7277	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
7278	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
7279	</listitem>
7280
7281	<listitem>
7282	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
7283	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
7284	</listitem>
7285
7286	<listitem>
7287	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
7288	</listitem>
7289
7290	<listitem>
7291	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
7292	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
7293	</listitem>
7294
7295	<listitem>
7296	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
7297	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
7298	</listitem>
7299
7300	<listitem>
7301	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
7302	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
7303	</listitem>
7304
7305	<listitem>
7306	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
7307	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
7308	</listitem>
7309
7310	<listitem>
7311	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
7312	</listitem>
7313
7314	<listitem>
7315	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
7316	</listitem>
7317
7318	</itemizedlist>
7319
7320	</sect1>
7321
7322	<sect1>
7323	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
7324
7325	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7326	added:</para>
7327
7328	<itemizedlist>
7329
7330	<listitem>
7331	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
7332	</listitem>
7333
7334	<listitem>
7335	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
7336	</listitem>
7337
7338	<listitem>
7339	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
7344	</listitem>
7345
7346	<listitem>
7347	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
7348	</listitem>
7349
7350	<listitem>
7351	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
7352	</listitem>
7353
7354	<listitem>
7355	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
7360	</listitem>
7361
7362	<listitem>
7363	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
7364	</listitem>
7365
7366	<listitem>
7367	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
7368	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
7369	</listitem>
7370
7371	<listitem>
7372	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
7373	</listitem>
7374
7375	<listitem>
7376	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
7377	</listitem>
7378
7379	<listitem>
7380	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
7381	</listitem>
7382
7383	<listitem>
7384	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
7389	</listitem>
7390
7391	<listitem>
7392	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
7397	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
7398	</listitem>
7399
7400	<listitem>
7401	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
7402	(bug #4654)</para>
7403	</listitem>
7404
7405	<listitem>
7406	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
7407	</listitem>
7408
7409	<listitem>
7410	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
7411	interfaces</para>
7412	</listitem>
7413
7414	<listitem>
7415	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
7416	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
7417	</listitem>
7418
7419	<listitem>
7420	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
7421	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
7422	</listitem>
7423
7424	<listitem>
7425	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
7426	properties (bug #3415)</para>
7427	</listitem>
7428
7429	<listitem>
7430	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
7431	(bug #1461)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
7436	</listitem>
7437
7438	<listitem>
7439	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
7440	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
7441	</listitem>
7442
7443	<listitem>
7444	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
7445	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
7450	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
7459	</listitem>
7460
7461	<listitem>
7462	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
7463	</listitem>
7464
7465	<listitem>
7466	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
7467	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
7468	</listitem>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
7472	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
7473	</listitem>
7474
7475	<listitem>
7476	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
7477	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	<listitem>
7481	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
7482	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
7483	</listitem>
7484
7485	</itemizedlist>
7486
7487	</sect1>
7488	<sect1>
7489	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
7490
7491	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7492	added:</para>
7493
7494	<itemizedlist>
7495
7496	<listitem>
7497	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	<listitem>
7501	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
7502	</listitem>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
7506	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
7507	</listitem>
7508
7509	<listitem>
7510	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
7511	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
7512	</listitem>
7513
7514	<listitem>
7515	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
7516	</listitem>
7517
7518	<listitem>
7519	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
7520	</listitem>
7521
7522	<listitem>
7523	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
7524	</listitem>
7525
7526	<listitem>
7527	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
7528	</listitem>
7529
7530	<listitem>
7531	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
7532	</listitem>
7533
7534	<listitem>
7535	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
7536	</listitem>
7537
7538	<listitem>
7539	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
7540	</listitem>
7541
7542	<listitem>
7543	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
7544	</listitem>
7545
7546	<listitem>
7547	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
7548	</listitem>
7549
7550	<listitem>
7551	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
7552	</listitem>
7553
7554	<listitem>
7555	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
7560	guest (bug #4381)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
7565	</listitem>
7566
7567	<listitem>
7568	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
7569	</listitem>
7570
7571	<listitem>
7572	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
7573	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
7574	</listitem>
7575
7576	<listitem>
7577	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
7578	</listitem>
7579
7580	<listitem>
7581	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
7582	</listitem>
7583
7584	<listitem>
7585	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
7586	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
7587	</listitem>
7588
7589	<listitem>
7590	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
7591	</listitem>
7592
7593	<listitem>
7594	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
7595	</listitem>
7596
7597	<listitem>
7598	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
7603	</listitem>
7604
7605	<listitem>
7606	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
7607	</listitem>
7608
7609	<listitem>
7610	<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>
7611	</listitem>
7612
7613	</itemizedlist>
7614
7615	</sect1>
7616
7617	<sect1>
7618	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
7619
7620	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7621	were added:</para>
7622
7623	<itemizedlist>
7624
7625	<listitem>
7626	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
7627	</listitem>
7628
7629	<listitem>
7630	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
7631	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7632	</listitem>
7633
7634	<listitem>
7635	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
7636	</listitem>
7637
7638	</itemizedlist>
7639
7640	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7641
7642	<itemizedlist>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
7646	</listitem>
7647
7648	<listitem>
7649	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
7650	certain conditions</para>
7651	</listitem>
7652
7653	<listitem>
7654	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
7655	</listitem>
7656
7657	<listitem>
7658	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
7659	</listitem>
7660
7661	<listitem>
7662	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
7663	</listitem>
7664
7665	<listitem>
7666	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
7667	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
7668	</listitem>
7669
7670	<listitem>
7671	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
7672	</listitem>
7673
7674	<listitem>
7675	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
7688	</listitem>
7689
7690	<listitem>
7691	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
7692	</listitem>
7693
7694	<listitem>
7695	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
7696	</listitem>
7697
7698	<listitem>
7699	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
7704	(non Windows hosts)</para>
7705	</listitem>
7706
7707	<listitem>
7708	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
7709	</listitem>
7710
7711	<listitem>
7712	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
7713	</listitem>
7714
7715	<listitem>
7716	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
7717	</listitem>
7718
7719	<listitem>
7720	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
7721	</listitem>
7722
7723	<listitem>
7724	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
7725	</listitem>
7726
7727	<listitem>
7728	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
7729	</listitem>
7730
7731	<listitem>
7732	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
7733	</listitem>
7734
7735	<listitem>
7736	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
7737	</listitem>
7738
7739	<listitem>
7740	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
7745	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
7750	</listitem>
7751
7752	<listitem>
7753	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
7754	</listitem>
7755
7756	<listitem>
7757	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
7758	</listitem>
7759
7760	<listitem>
7761	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
7762	</listitem>
7763
7764	<listitem>
7765	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
7766	</listitem>
7767
7768	<listitem>
7769	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
7774	</listitem>
7775
7776	<listitem>
7777	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
7778	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
7779	</listitem>
7780
7781	<listitem>
7782	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
7783	</listitem>
7784
7785	<listitem>
7786	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
7787	</listitem>
7788
7789	<listitem>
7790	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
7795	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
7800	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
7805	correct file mode when creating files</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
7810	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	<listitem>
7814	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
7815	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	<listitem>
7819	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
7820	</listitem>
7821
7822	<listitem>
7823	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
7824	</listitem>
7825
7826	<listitem>
7827	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
7828	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
7833	guest property lookup</para>
7834	</listitem>
7835
7836	<listitem>
7837	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
7838	basic network information)</para>
7839	</listitem>
7840
7841	<listitem>
7842	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
7843	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
7844	</listitem>
7845
7846	<listitem>
7847	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
7848	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
7849	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
7850	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
7851	</listitem>
7852
7853	<listitem>
7854	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
7855	</listitem>
7856
7857	<listitem>
7858	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
7859	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
7860	web service</para>
7861	</listitem>
7862
7863	<listitem>
7864	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
7865	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
7870	unavailable</para>
7871	</listitem>
7872
7873	<listitem>
7874	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
7875	</listitem>
7876
7877	</itemizedlist>
7878	</sect1>
7879
7880	<sect1>
7881	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
7882
7883	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7884	added:</para>
7885
7886	<itemizedlist>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
7890	installation</para>
7891	</listitem>
7892
7893	<listitem>
7894	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
7895	</listitem>
7896
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
7899	later (bug #3981)</para>
7900	</listitem>
7901
7902	<listitem>
7903	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
7904	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
7905	</listitem>
7906
7907	<listitem>
7908	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
7909	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
7910	(bug #4034)
7911	</para>
7912	</listitem>
7913
7914	<listitem>
7915	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
7916	networking</para>
7917	</listitem>
7918
7919	<listitem>
7920	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
7921	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
7922	</listitem>
7923
7924	<listitem>
7925	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
7926	clicks</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
7931	Windows 7 guests</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
7936	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
7941	</listitem>
7942
7943	<listitem>
7944	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
7949	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
7954	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
7955	</listitem>
7956
7957	<listitem>
7958	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
7959	</listitem>
7960
7961	<listitem>
7962	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
7963	</listitem>
7964
7965	<listitem>
7966	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
7967	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
7968	(bug #3864)</para>
7969	</listitem>
7970
7971	<listitem>
7972	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
7973	now flushes the output stream</para>
7974	</listitem>
7975
7976	<listitem>
7977	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
7978	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
7979	</listitem>
7980
7981	<listitem>
7982	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
7983	</listitem>
7984
7985	<listitem>
7986	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
7987	</listitem>
7988
7989	<listitem>
7990	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
7991	</listitem>
7992
7993	<listitem>
7994	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
7999	(bug #3964)</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
8004	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
8005	</listitem>
8006
8007	<listitem>
8008	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
8009	hosts</para>
8010	</listitem>
8011
8012	<listitem>
8013	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
8014	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
8015	e1000 adapter</para>
8016	</listitem>
8017
8018	<listitem>
8019	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
8020	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
8021	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
8022	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
8023	</listitem>
8024
8025	<listitem>
8026	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
8027	</listitem>
8028
8029	<listitem>
8030	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
8031	</listitem>
8032
8033	<listitem>
8034	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
8035	</listitem>
8036
8037	<listitem>
8038	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
8039	file (bug #1023)</para>
8040	</listitem>
8041
8042	<listitem>
8043	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
8044	</listitem>
8045
8046	<listitem>
8047	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	</itemizedlist>
8051	</sect1>
8052
8053	<sect1>
8054	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
8055
8056	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8057	added:</para>
8058
8059	<itemizedlist>
8060
8061	<listitem>
8062	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
8063	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
8064	</listitem>
8065
8066	<listitem>
8067	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
8068	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
8069	and later</para>
8070	</listitem>
8071
8072	<listitem>
8073	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
8074	running services</para>
8075	</listitem>
8076
8077	<listitem>
8078	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
8079	terminates</para>
8080	</listitem>
8081
8082	<listitem>
8083	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
8084	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
8085	</listitem>
8086
8087	<listitem>
8088	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
8089	installed on the guest</para>
8090	</listitem>
8091
8092	<listitem>
8093	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
8094	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
8095	</listitem>
8096
8097	<listitem>
8098	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
8099	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
8104	(bug #2628)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
8109	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
8114	(bug #3657)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
8119	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
8120	</listitem>
8121
8122	<listitem>
8123	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
8124	virtualization only)
8125	</para>
8126	</listitem>
8127
8128	<listitem>
8129	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
8130	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
8131	</listitem>
8132
8133	<listitem>
8134	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
8135	</listitem>
8136
8137	<listitem>
8138	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
8139	networks (bug #3702)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
8144	bug #3689)</para>
8145	</listitem>
8146
8147	<listitem>
8148	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
8149	bug #3679)</para>
8150	</listitem>
8151
8152	<listitem>
8153	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
8154	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
8155	</listitem>
8156
8157	<listitem>
8158	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
8159	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
8160	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
8161	</listitem>
8162
8163	<listitem>
8164	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
8165	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
8166	</listitem>
8167
8168	<listitem>
8169	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
8170	lease (bug #3655)</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
8175	(bug #3667)</para>
8176	</listitem>
8177
8178	<listitem>
8179	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
8180	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
8181	</listitem>
8182
8183	<listitem>
8184	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
8185	</listitem>
8186
8187	<listitem>
8188	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
8189	</listitem>
8190
8191	<listitem>
8192	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
8193	</listitem>
8194
8195	<listitem>
8196	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
8197	</listitem>
8198
8199	<listitem>
8200	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
8201	</listitem>
8202
8203	<listitem>
8204	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
8205	</listitem>
8206
8207	<listitem>
8208	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
8209	</listitem>
8210
8211	</itemizedlist>
8212	</sect1>
8213
8214	<sect1>
8215	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
8216
8217	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8218	were added:</para>
8219
8220	<itemizedlist>
8221
8222	<listitem>
8223	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
8224	</listitem>
8225
8226	<listitem>
8227	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
8228	</listitem>
8229
8230	<listitem>
8231	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
8236	</listitem>
8237
8238	<listitem>
8239	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
8240	</listitem>
8241
8242	<listitem>
8243	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
8244	</listitem>
8245
8246	<listitem>
8247	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
8248	</listitem>
8249
8250	<listitem>
8251	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
8252	</listitem>
8253
8254	<listitem>
8255	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
8256	</listitem>
8257
8258	<listitem>
8259	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
8260	</listitem>
8261
8262	</itemizedlist>
8263
8264	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8265
8266	<itemizedlist>
8267
8268	<listitem>
8269	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
8270	</listitem>
8271
8272	<listitem>
8273	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
8274	</listitem>
8275
8276	<listitem>
8277	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
8278	</listitem>
8279
8280	<listitem>
8281	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
8282	</listitem>
8283
8284	<listitem>
8285	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
8286	</listitem>
8287
8288	<listitem>
8289	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
8290	</listitem>
8291
8292	<listitem>
8293	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
8294	</listitem>
8295
8296	<listitem>
8297	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
8298	</listitem>
8299
8300	<listitem>
8301	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
8302	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
8303	</listitem>
8304
8305	<listitem>
8306	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
8307	</listitem>
8308
8309	<listitem>
8310	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
8311	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
8316	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
8317	</listitem>
8318
8319	<listitem>
8320	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
8321	</listitem>
8322
8323	<listitem>
8324	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
8325	</listitem>
8326
8327	<listitem>
8328	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
8329	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
8330	</listitem>
8331
8332	<listitem>
8333	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
8334	</listitem>
8335
8336	<listitem>
8337	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
8338	ESX server images)</para>
8339	</listitem>
8340
8341	<listitem>
8342	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
8343	writable</para>
8344	</listitem>
8345
8346	<listitem>
8347	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
8348	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
8349	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
8350	</listitem>
8351
8352	<listitem>
8353	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
8354	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
8355	</listitem>
8356
8357	<listitem>
8358	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
8359	</listitem>
8360
8361	<listitem>
8362	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
8363	</listitem>
8364
8365	<listitem>
8366	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
8367	hosts when creating files</para>
8368	</listitem>
8369
8370	<listitem>
8371	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
8372	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
8377	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
8378	#2306)</para>
8379	</listitem>
8380
8381	<listitem>
8382	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
8383	(bug #3555)</para>
8384	</listitem>
8385
8386	<listitem>
8387	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
8388	installer (bug #3524)</para>
8389	</listitem>
8390
8391	<listitem>
8392	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
8393	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
8394	</listitem>
8395
8396	<listitem>
8397	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
8398	interface (bug #3414)</para>
8399	</listitem>
8400
8401	<listitem>
8402	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
8403	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
8404	</listitem>
8405
8406	<listitem>
8407	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
8408	(bug #3586)</para>
8409	</listitem>
8410
8411	<listitem>
8412	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
8413	from Scratch systems</para>
8414	</listitem>
8415
8416	<listitem>
8417	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
8418	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
8419	</listitem>
8420
8421	<listitem>
8422	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
8423	</listitem>
8424
8425	<listitem>
8426	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
8427	default to compact format</para>
8428	</listitem>
8429
8430	<listitem>
8431	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
8432	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
8433	</listitem>
8434
8435	<listitem>
8436	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
8437	</listitem>
8438
8439	<listitem>
8440	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
8441	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
8442	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
8447	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
8448	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
8449	</listitem>
8450
8451	<listitem>
8452	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
8453	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
8454	</listitem>
8455
8456	<listitem>
8457	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
8462	</listitem>
8463
8464	<listitem>
8465	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
8466	</listitem>
8467
8468	<listitem>
8469	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
8470	</listitem>
8471
8472	<listitem>
8473	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
8474	</listitem>
8475
8476	<listitem>
8477	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
8478	</listitem>
8479
8480	<listitem>
8481	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
8486	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
8487	</listitem>
8488
8489	<listitem>
8490	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
8491	</listitem>
8492
8493	<listitem>
8494	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
8495	regression; bug #2065)</para>
8496	</listitem>
8497
8498	<listitem>
8499	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
8500	</listitem>
8501
8502	<listitem>
8503	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
8504	</listitem>
8505
8506	<listitem>
8507	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
8508	</listitem>
8509
8510	<listitem>
8511	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
8512	#2536)</para>
8513	</listitem>
8514
8515	<listitem>
8516	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
8521	(bug #3548)</para>
8522	</listitem>
8523
8524	</itemizedlist>
8525	</sect1>
8526
8527	<sect1>
8528	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
8529
8530	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8531	added:</para>
8532
8533	<itemizedlist>
8534
8535	<listitem>
8536	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8537	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8538	</listitem>
8539
8540	<listitem>
8541	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
8542	</listitem>
8543
8544	<listitem>
8545	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
8546	</listitem>
8547
8548	<listitem>
8549	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8550	</listitem>
8551
8552	<listitem>
8553	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
8554	(bug #3115)</para>
8555	</listitem>
8556
8557	<listitem>
8558	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
8559	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
8560	</listitem>
8561
8562	<listitem>
8563	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
8564	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
8565	(bug #3215)</para>
8566	</listitem>
8567
8568	<listitem>
8569	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
8570	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
8571	</listitem>
8572
8573	<listitem>
8574	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
8575	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	<listitem>
8579	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
8580	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
8581	</listitem>
8582
8583	<listitem>
8584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8585	in parallel</para>
8586	</listitem>
8587
8588	<listitem>
8589	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8590	</listitem>
8591
8592	<listitem>
8593	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
8594	</listitem>
8595
8596	<listitem>
8597	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
8598	</listitem>
8599
8600	<listitem>
8601	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
8602	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
8603	</listitem>
8604
8605	<listitem>
8606	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
8607	</listitem>
8608
8609	<listitem>
8610	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
8611	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
8612	</listitem>
8613
8614	<listitem>
8615	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
8616	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
8617	</listitem>
8618
8619	<listitem>
8620	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
8621	</listitem>
8622
8623	<listitem>
8624	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8625	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8626	</listitem>
8627
8628	<listitem>
8629	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
8630	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
8631	</listitem>
8632
8633	<listitem>
8634	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
8635	</listitem>
8636
8637	<listitem>
8638	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
8639	</listitem>
8640
8641	<listitem>
8642	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
8643	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
8644	</listitem>
8645
8646	<listitem>
8647	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
8648	</listitem>
8649
8650	<listitem>
8651	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
8652	</listitem>
8653
8654	<listitem>
8655	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
8656	</listitem>
8657
8658	<listitem>
8659	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
8660	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
8661	</listitem>
8662
8663	<listitem>
8664	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
8665	</listitem>
8666
8667	<listitem>
8668	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8669	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8670	</listitem>
8671
8672	<listitem>
8673	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8674	</listitem>
8675
8676	<listitem>
8677	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
8678	</listitem>
8679
8680	<listitem>
8681	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
8682	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
8683	</listitem>
8684
8685	<listitem>
8686	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
8687	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
8688	</listitem>
8689
8690	<listitem>
8691	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
8692	</listitem>
8693
8694	<listitem>
8695	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
8696	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
8697	</listitem>
8698
8699	<listitem>
8700	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8701	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8702	</listitem>
8703
8704	<listitem>
8705	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
8706	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
8707	</listitem>
8708
8709	<listitem>
8710	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
8711	(bug #3213)</para>
8712	</listitem>
8713
8714	<listitem>
8715	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
8716	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
8717	</listitem>
8718
8719	<listitem>
8720	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
8721	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
8722	</listitem>
8723
8724	</itemizedlist>
8725	</sect1>
8726
8727	<sect1>
8728	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
8729
8730	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8731	added:</para>
8732
8733	<itemizedlist>
8734
8735	<listitem>
8736	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
8737	</listitem>
8738
8739	<listitem>
8740	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
8741	</listitem>
8742
8743	<listitem>
8744	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
8745	</listitem>
8746
8747	<listitem>
8748	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
8749	</listitem>
8750
8751	<listitem>
8752	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
8753	</listitem>
8754
8755	<listitem>
8756	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
8757	</listitem>
8758
8759	<listitem>
8760	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
8761	</listitem>
8762
8763	<listitem>
8764	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
8765	</listitem>
8766
8767	<listitem>
8768	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
8769	</listitem>
8770
8771	<listitem>
8772	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
8773	</listitem>
8774
8775	<listitem>
8776	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
8777	</listitem>
8778
8779	<listitem>
8780	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
8781	</listitem>
8782
8783	<listitem>
8784	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
8785	</listitem>
8786
8787	<listitem>
8788	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
8789	</listitem>
8790
8791	<listitem>
8792	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
8793	</listitem>
8794
8795	<listitem>
8796	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
8797	</listitem>
8798
8799	<listitem>
8800	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
8801	(bug #3067)</para>
8802	</listitem>
8803
8804	<listitem>
8805	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
8806	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
8807	</listitem>
8808
8809	<listitem>
8810	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
8811	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
8812	</listitem>
8813
8814	<listitem>
8815	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
8816	</listitem>
8817
8818	<listitem>
8819	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
8820	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
8821	</listitem>
8822
8823	<listitem>
8824	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
8825	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8826	</listitem>
8827
8828	<listitem>
8829	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
8830	</listitem>
8831
8832	<listitem>
8833	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
8834	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
8835	</listitem>
8836
8837	<listitem>
8838	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
8839	</listitem>
8840
8841	<listitem>
8842	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
8843	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
8844	</listitem>
8845
8846	<listitem>
8847	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
8848	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
8849	</listitem>
8850
8851	<listitem>
8852	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
8853	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
8854	</para>
8855	</listitem>
8856
8857	<listitem>
8858	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
8859	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
8860	</para>
8861	</listitem>
8862
8863	<listitem>
8864	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
8865	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
8866	</para>
8867	</listitem>
8868
8869	<listitem>
8870	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
8871	</listitem>
8872
8873	<listitem>
8874	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
8875	</listitem>
8876
8877	<listitem>
8878	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
8879	</listitem>
8880
8881	<listitem>
8882	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
8883	</listitem>
8884
8885	<listitem>
8886	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
8887	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
8888	</listitem>
8889
8890	<listitem>
8891	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
8892	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
8893	</listitem>
8894
8895	<listitem>
8896	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
8897	formatting a drive</para>
8898	</listitem>
8899
8900	<listitem>
8901	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
8902	</listitem>
8903
8904	<listitem>
8905	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
8906	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8907	</listitem>
8908
8909	<listitem>
8910	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
8911	</listitem>
8912
8913	<listitem>
8914	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
8915	</listitem>
8916
8917	<listitem>
8918	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
8919	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
8920	</listitem>
8921
8922	<listitem>
8923	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
8924	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
8925	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
8926	</listitem>
8927
8928	<listitem>
8929	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
8930	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
8931	</listitem>
8932
8933	<listitem>
8934	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
8935	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
8936	</listitem>
8937
8938	<listitem>
8939	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
8940	(bug #2768)</para>
8941	</listitem>
8942
8943	<listitem>
8944	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
8945	</listitem>
8946
8947	<listitem>
8948	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
8949	</listitem>
8950
8951	<listitem>
8952	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
8953	single, unified package</para>
8954	</listitem>
8955
8956	<listitem>
8957	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
8958	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
8959	</listitem>
8960
8961	<listitem>
8962	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
8963	</listitem>
8964
8965	<listitem>
8966	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
8967	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
8968	</listitem>
8969
8970	<listitem>
8971	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
8972	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
8973	</listitem>
8974
8975	<listitem>
8976	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
8977	</listitem>
8978
8979	<listitem>
8980	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
8981	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
8982	doing 3D</para>
8983	</listitem>
8984
8985	<listitem>
8986	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
8987	</listitem>
8988
8989	<listitem>
8990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
8991	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
8992	</listitem>
8993
8994	<listitem>
8995	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
8996	</listitem>
8997
8998	<listitem>
8999	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
9000	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
9001	</listitem>
9002
9003	<listitem>
9004	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
9005	</listitem>
9006
9007	<listitem>
9008	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
9009	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
9010	</listitem>
9011
9012	<listitem>
9013	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
9014	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
9015	(bug #2938)</para>
9016	</listitem>
9017
9018	<listitem>
9019	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
9020	Linux guests</para>
9021	</listitem>
9022
9023	<listitem>
9024	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
9025	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
9026	(bug #1776)</para>
9027	</listitem>
9028
9029	<listitem>
9030	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
9031	(bug #1612)</para>
9032	</listitem>
9033
9034	<listitem>
9035	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
9036	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
9037	</listitem>
9038
9039	<listitem>
9040	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
9041	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
9042	</listitem>
9043
9044	<listitem>
9045	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
9046	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
9047	</listitem>
9048
9049	</itemizedlist>
9050	</sect1>
9051
9052	<sect1>
9053	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
9054
9055	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9056	were added:</para>
9057
9058	<itemizedlist>
9059	<listitem>
9060	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
9061	</listitem>
9062
9063	<listitem>
9064	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
9065	</listitem>
9066
9067	<listitem>
9068	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
9069	</listitem>
9070
9071	<listitem>
9072	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
9073	</listitem>
9074
9075	<listitem>
9076	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
9077	</listitem>
9078
9079	<listitem>
9080	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
9081	</listitem>
9082
9083	<listitem>
9084	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
9085	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
9086	</listitem>
9087
9088	<listitem>
9089	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
9090	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
9091	</listitem>
9092
9093	</itemizedlist>
9094
9095	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
9096
9097	<itemizedlist>
9098	<listitem>
9099	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
9100	</listitem>
9101
9102	<listitem>
9103	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
9104	</listitem>
9105
9106	<listitem>
9107	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
9108	</listitem>
9109
9110	<listitem>
9111	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
9112	</listitem>
9113
9114	<listitem>
9115	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
9116	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
9117	</listitem>
9118
9119	<listitem>
9120	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
9121	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
9122	</listitem>
9123
9124	<listitem>
9125	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
9126	</listitem>
9127
9128	<listitem>
9129	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
9130	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
9131	</listitem>
9132
9133	<listitem>
9134	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
9135	</listitem>
9136
9137	<listitem>
9138	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
9139	</listitem>
9140
9141	<listitem>
9142	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
9143	</listitem>
9144
9145	<listitem>
9146	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
9147	</listitem>
9148
9149	<listitem>
9150	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
9151	</listitem>
9152
9153	<listitem>
9154	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
9155	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
9156	</listitem>
9157
9158	<listitem>
9159	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
9160	the compiz window manager</para>
9161	</listitem>
9162
9163	<listitem>
9164	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
9165	</listitem>
9166
9167	<listitem>
9168	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
9169	</listitem>
9170
9171	<listitem>
9172	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
9173	</listitem>
9174
9175	<listitem>
9176	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
9177	</listitem>
9178
9179	<listitem>
9180	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
9181	</listitem>
9182
9183	<listitem>
9184	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
9185	</listitem>
9186
9187	<listitem>
9188	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
9189	</listitem>
9190
9191	<listitem>
9192	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
9193	</listitem>
9194
9195	<listitem>
9196	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
9197	</listitem>
9198
9199	<listitem>
9200	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
9201	of two (bug #2724)</para>
9202	</listitem>
9203
9204	<listitem>
9205	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
9206	for direct device access</para>
9207	</listitem>
9208
9209	<listitem>
9210	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
9211	</listitem>
9212
9213	<listitem>
9214	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
9215	</listitem>
9216
9217	<listitem>
9218	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
9219	</listitem>
9220
9221	<listitem>
9222	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
9223	</listitem>
9224
9225	<listitem>
9226	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
9227	</listitem>
9228
9229	<listitem>
9230	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
9231	</listitem>
9232
9233	<listitem>
9234	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
9235	</listitem>
9236
9237	<listitem>
9238	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
9239	</listitem>
9240
9241	</itemizedlist>
9242	</sect1>
9243
9244	<sect1>
9245	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
9246
9247	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9248	added:</para>
9249
9250	<itemizedlist>
9251
9252	<listitem>
9253	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
9254	states/snapshots</para>
9255	</listitem>
9256
9257	<listitem>
9258	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
9259	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
9260	</listitem>
9261
9262	<listitem>
9263	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
9264	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
9265	</listitem>
9266
9267	<listitem>
9268	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
9269	collisions</para>
9270	</listitem>
9271
9272	<listitem>
9273	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
9274	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
9275	</listitem>
9276
9277	<listitem>
9278	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
9279	</listitem>
9280
9281	<listitem>
9282	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
9283	reliably</para>
9284	</listitem>
9285
9286	<listitem>
9287	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
9288	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
9289	</listitem>
9290
9291	<listitem>
9292	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
9293	a reboot</para>
9294	</listitem>
9295
9296	<listitem>
9297	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
9298	</listitem>
9299
9300	<listitem>
9301	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
9302	in parallel</para>
9303	</listitem>
9304
9305	<listitem>
9306	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
9307	</listitem>
9308
9309	<listitem>
9310	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
9311	correctly</para>
9312	</listitem>
9313
9314	<listitem>
9315	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
9316	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
9317	</listitem>
9318
9319	</itemizedlist>
9320	</sect1>
9321
9322	<sect1>
9323	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
9324
9325	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9326	added:</para>
9327
9328	<itemizedlist>
9329
9330	<listitem>
9331	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
9332	(bug #2220)</para>
9333	</listitem>
9334
9335	<listitem>
9336	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
9337	</listitem>
9338
9339	<listitem>
9340	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
9341	</listitem>
9342
9343	<listitem>
9344	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
9345	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
9346	</listitem>
9347
9348	<listitem>
9349	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
9350	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
9351	</listitem>
9352
9353	<listitem>
9354	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
9355	(bug #2624)</para>
9356	</listitem>
9357
9358	<listitem>
9359	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
9360	(bug #2024)</para>
9361	</listitem>
9362
9363	<listitem>
9364	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
9365	</listitem>
9366
9367	<listitem>
9368	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
9369	</listitem>
9370
9371	<listitem>
9372	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
9373	</listitem>
9374
9375	<listitem>
9376	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
9377	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
9378	</listitem>
9379
9380	<listitem>
9381	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
9382	applications when updating the installation</para>
9383	</listitem>
9384
9385	<listitem>
9386	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
9387	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
9388	</listitem>
9389
9390	<listitem>
9391	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
9392	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
9393	</listitem>
9394
9395	<listitem>
9396	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
9397	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
9398	</listitem>
9399
9400	<listitem>
9401	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
9402	connected to a host device</para>
9403	</listitem>
9404
9405	<listitem>
9406	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
9407	</listitem>
9408
9409	<listitem>
9410	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
9411	</listitem>
9412
9413	<listitem>
9414	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
9415	</listitem>
9416
9417	<listitem>
9418	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
9419	when using native RDP connections</para>
9420	</listitem>
9421
9422	<listitem>
9423	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
9424	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
9425	</listitem>
9426
9427	<listitem>
9428	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
9429	(bug #2591)</para>
9430	</listitem>
9431
9432	<listitem>
9433	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
9434	guests (bug #2550)</para>
9435	</listitem>
9436
9437	<listitem>
9438	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
9439	</listitem>
9440
9441	</itemizedlist>
9442	</sect1>
9443
9444	<sect1>
9445	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
9446
9447	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9448	added:</para>
9449
9450	<itemizedlist>
9451	<listitem>
9452	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
9453	</listitem>
9454
9455	<listitem>
9456	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
9457	</listitem>
9458
9459	<listitem>
9460	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
9461	</listitem>
9462
9463	<listitem>
9464	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
9465	</listitem>
9466
9467	<listitem>
9468	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
9469	</listitem>
9470
9471	<listitem>
9472	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
9473	</listitem>
9474
9475	<listitem>
9476	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
9477	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
9478	</listitem>
9479
9480	<listitem>
9481	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
9482	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
9483	</listitem>
9484
9485	<listitem>
9486	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
9487	</listitem>
9488
9489	<listitem>
9490	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
9491	equal to the client resolution</para>
9492	</listitem>
9493
9494	<listitem>
9495	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
9496	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
9497	</listitem>
9498
9499	<listitem>
9500	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
9501	</listitem>
9502
9503	<listitem>
9504	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
9505	</listitem>
9506
9507	<listitem>
9508	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
9509	</listitem>
9510
9511	<listitem>
9512	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
9513	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
9514	</listitem>
9515
9516	<listitem>
9517	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
9518	networking (bug #2474)</para>
9519	</listitem>
9520
9521	<listitem>
9522	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
9523	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
9524	</listitem>
9525
9526	<listitem>
9527	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
9528	</listitem>
9529
9530	<listitem>
9531	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
9532	</listitem>
9533
9534	<listitem>
9535	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
9536	</listitem>
9537
9538	<listitem>
9539	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
9540	</listitem>
9541
9542	<listitem>
9543	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
9544	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
9545	</listitem>
9546
9547	<listitem>
9548	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
9549	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
9550	</listitem>
9551
9552	<listitem>
9553	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
9554	</listitem>
9555
9556	<listitem>
9557	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
9558	</listitem>
9559
9560	<listitem>
9561	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
9562	</listitem>
9563
9564	</itemizedlist>
9565
9566	</sect1>
9567
9568	<sect1>
9569	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
9570
9571	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9572	added:</para>
9573
9574	<itemizedlist>
9575
9576	<listitem>
9577	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
9578	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
9579	</listitem>
9580
9581	<listitem>
9582	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
9583	</listitem>
9584
9585	<listitem>
9586	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
9587	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
9588	</listitem>
9589
9590	<listitem>
9591	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
9592	</listitem>
9593
9594	<listitem>
9595	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
9596	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
9597	</listitem>
9598
9599	<listitem>
9600	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
9601	</listitem>
9602
9603	<listitem>
9604	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
9605	the virtual disk manager</para>
9606	</listitem>
9607
9608	<listitem>
9609	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
9610	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
9611	</listitem>
9612
9613	<listitem>
9614	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
9615	</listitem>
9616
9617	<listitem>
9618	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
9619	</listitem>
9620
9621	<listitem>
9622	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
9623	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
9624	</listitem>
9625
9626	<listitem>
9627	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
9628	bug #2067)</para>
9629	</listitem>
9630
9631	<listitem>
9632	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
9633	</listitem>
9634
9635	<listitem>
9636	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
9637	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
9638	</listitem>
9639
9640	<listitem>
9641	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
9642	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
9643	(bug #2184)</para>
9644	</listitem>
9645
9646	<listitem>
9647	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
9648	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
9649	</listitem>
9650
9651	<listitem>
9652	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
9653	(Windows guests only)</para>
9654	</listitem>
9655
9656	<listitem>
9657	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
9658	</listitem>
9659
9660	<listitem>
9661	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
9662	</listitem>
9663
9664	<listitem>
9665	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
9666	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
9667	</listitem>
9668
9669	<listitem>
9670	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
9671	</listitem>
9672
9673	<listitem>
9674	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
9675	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
9676	</para>
9677	</listitem>
9678
9679	<listitem>
9680	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
9681	</listitem>
9682
9683	<listitem>
9684	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
9685	</listitem>
9686
9687	<listitem>
9688	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
9689	a VM reboot</para>
9690	</listitem>
9691
9692	<listitem>
9693	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
9694	</listitem>
9695
9696	<listitem>
9697	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
9698	buggy X servers</para>
9699	</listitem>
9700
9701	<listitem>
9702	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
9703	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
9704	</listitem>
9705
9706	<listitem>
9707	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
9708	</listitem>
9709
9710	<listitem>
9711	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
9712	(bug #2128)</para>
9713	</listitem>
9714
9715	<listitem>
9716	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
9717	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
9718	</listitem>
9719
9720	<listitem>
9721	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
9722	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
9723	</listitem>
9724
9725	<listitem>
9726	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
9727	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
9728	</listitem>
9729
9730	<listitem>
9731	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
9732	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
9733	</listitem>
9734
9735	<listitem>
9736	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
9737	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
9738	</listitem>
9739
9740	<listitem>
9741	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
9742	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
9743	</listitem>
9744
9745	<listitem>
9746	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
9747	installer into a single package</para>
9748	</listitem>
9749
9750	<listitem>
9751	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
9752	port to the guest
9753	</para>
9754	</listitem>
9755
9756	</itemizedlist>
9757
9758	</sect1>
9759
9760	<sect1>
9761	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
9762
9763	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9764	were added:<itemizedlist>
9765
9766	<listitem>
9767	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
9768	</listitem>
9769
9770	<listitem>
9771	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
9772	</listitem>
9773
9774	<listitem>
9775	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
9776	</listitem>
9777
9778	<listitem>
9779	<para>New-version notifier</para>
9780	</listitem>
9781
9782	<listitem>
9783	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
9784	</listitem>
9785
9786	<listitem>
9787	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
9788	</listitem>
9789
9790	<listitem>
9791	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
9792	</listitem>
9793
9794	<listitem>
9795	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
9796	</listitem>
9797
9798	<listitem>
9799	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
9800	</listitem>
9801
9802	<listitem>
9803	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
9804	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
9805	</listitem>
9806
9807	<listitem>
9808	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
9809	</listitem>
9810
9811	<listitem>
9812	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
9813	</listitem>
9814
9815	<listitem>
9816	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
9817	</listitem>
9818
9819	</itemizedlist></para>
9820
9821	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
9822
9823	<itemizedlist>
9824
9825	<listitem>
9826	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
9827	</listitem>
9828
9829	<listitem>
9830	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
9831	</listitem>
9832
9833	<listitem>
9834	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
9835	</listitem>
9836
9837	<listitem>
9838	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
9839	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
9840	</listitem>
9841
9842	<listitem>
9843	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
9844	restored</para>
9845	</listitem>
9846
9847	<listitem>
9848	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
9849	</listitem>
9850
9851	<listitem>
9852	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
9853	</listitem>
9854
9855	<listitem>
9856	<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>
9857	</listitem>
9858
9859	</itemizedlist>
9860
9861	</sect1>
9862

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