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5	<sect1>
6	<title>Version 5.1.2 (20xx-xx-xx)</title>
7
8	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9	added:</para>
10
11	<itemizedlist>
12
13	<listitem>
14	<para>GUI: fixed issue with double-click/opening registered file types
15	(.vbox and Extension Pack) on Mac OS X</para>
16	</listitem>
17
18	<listitem>
19	<para>Storage: fixed creating fixed size VHD images (bug #15601)</para>
20	</listitem>
21
22	<listitem>
23	<para>Storage: fixed a hang during power off if the VM was suspended
24	before and a NVMe controller is configured</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Audio: make AC97 volume control work again (5.1 regression;
33	bug #15598)</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and
38	higher (bug #15607)</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>API: fixed audio settings handling for older config files
43	(bug #15626)</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>API: fixed truncation of USB product/vendor IDs on Linux
48	hosts (5.1.0 regression; bug #15644)</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>API: fixed VRDP with authentication (bug #15653</para>
53	</listitem>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>Linux hosts: fixed EL5 builds (bug #15634)</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	</itemizedlist>
60	</sect1>
61
62	<sect1>
63	<title>Version 5.1.0 (2016-07-12)</title>
64
65	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
66	were added:</para>
67
68	<itemizedlist>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved
72	performance in certain situations (for example with networking, bug #15295)</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to
81	user mode</para>
82	</listitem>
83
84	<listitem>
85	<para>GUI: overall migration to Qt5 (bug #11775)</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and
90	response time</para>
91	</listitem>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance
99	and reduce the CPU consumption</para>
100	</listitem>
101
102	<listitem>
103	<para>Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC'97 emulation, which now also
104	takes the master volume control into account</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>better support for Python 3</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	</itemizedlist>
112
113	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
114
115	<itemizedlist>
116
117	<listitem>
118	<para>VMM: activate the x2APIC by default for Linux guests</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>VMM: many more fixes</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>GUI: the <emphasis>Detach UI</emphasis> action is now a part of the
127	VM Machine menu</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>GUI: reworked session information window</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	<listitem>
135	<para>GUI: the new VM wizard now allows to choose the VM location for the VM
136	which is being created</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	<listitem>
140	<para>GUI: fixed location of touch events in unscaled HiDPI mode
141	(bugs #14366, #14367)</para>
142	</listitem>
143
144	<listitem>
145	<para>GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup</para>
146	</listitem>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>Storage: use <emphasis>fallocate()</emphasis> or similar if present to speed
150	up creating fixed-sized disk images (bug #5967)</para>
151	</listitem>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>Storage: implemented NVMHCI-compatible storage controller</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>Audio: various bugfixes and infrastructure improvements</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>E1000: implemented interrupt throttling for performance improvements</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>EFI: many improvements, for example allow to boot from USB</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>OVF: improved handling of signed manifests</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>API: Windows XP guests and Windows 2003 server guests now default to
175	the E1000 T Server network card</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>Installers: ship VBoxBugReport</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>Windows hosts: reworked COM proxy (e.g. bug #8298)</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>Linux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>Linux Additions: fix a problem when updating the initramfs after
196	the guest modules are compiled (bug #15579)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Linux Additions: try to fix a problem where the OpenGL libraries
201	where loaded by the X server when we only support X clients
202	(bug #15574)</para>
203	</listitem>
204
205	</itemizedlist>
206
207	</sect1>
208
209	<sect1>
210	<title>Version 5.0.24 (2016-06-28)</title>
211
212	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
213	added:</para>
214
215	<itemizedlist>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>VMM: reverted to the old I/O-APIC code for now to fix certain
219	regressions with 5.0.22 (bug #15529). This means that the networking
220	performance with certain guests will drop to the 5.0.20 level
221	(bug #15295). One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests.</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Main: when taking a screenshot, don't save garbage for blanked
226	screens</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>NAT: correctly parse resolv.conf file with multiple
231	separators (5.0.22 regression)</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>Storage: fixed a possible corruption of stream optimized
236	VMDK images from VMware when opened in read/write mode for the
237	first time</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>ACPI: notify the guest when the battery / AC state changes instead
242	of relying on guest polling</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>Linux hosts: fixed <emphasis>VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME</emphasis>
247	Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later (bug #15439)</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>Solaris hosts: make the GUI work on Solaris 10 again (bug #15549)</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	</itemizedlist>
255	</sect1>
256
257	<sect1>
258	<title>Version 5.0.22 (2016-06-16)</title>
259
260	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
261	added:</para>
262
263	<itemizedlist>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #14915)</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests
271	on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving
276	the performance under certain conditions (bug #15295 and others)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on
285	Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution
294	(bug #15432)</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D
299	enabled</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts
304	avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix
305	NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in
306	particular when the host uses OpnVPN.</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server
311	cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service
312	is using the same port</para>
313	</listitem>
314
315	<listitem>
316	<para>NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard
317	port-forwarding rules with default guest address (bug #15412)</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash
322	under certain conditions (bug #14811)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI
327	controller created by 3rd party applications</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings</para>
332	</listitem>
333
334	<listitem>
335	<para>Windows hosts: fixed performance regresson with SMP guests
336	(5.0 regression)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>Windows hosts: fixes for the shared clipboard</para>
341	</listitem>
342
343	<listitem>
344	<para>Windows hosts: Windows hardening fix</para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>Windows Additions: fixes to retain the guest display layout
349	when resizing or disabling the guest monitors</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix (bug #15411)</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix (bug #15459)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes (bug #15444)</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests (5.0.18
366	regression; bug #15320)</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset (5.0.18
371	regression; bug #15324)</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	<listitem>
375	<para>Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with
376	kernels 3.11 and later (5.0.18 regression; bug #15319)</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	<listitem>
380	<para>Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset
381	(5.0.18 regression; bug #15354)</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the
386	shared folders module fails (5.0.18 regression)</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service
391	is not available on the host</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	</itemizedlist>
399	</sect1>
400
401	<sect1>
402	<title>Version 5.0.20 (2016-04-28)</title>
403
404	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
405	added:</para>
406
407	<itemizedlist>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS
411	to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller
412	(5.0.18 regression; bug #15317)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI
417	controller emulation</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as
422	in bug #14736 for NAT)</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types
431	and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all
432	NAT traffic</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more
437	network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses
438	ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)</para>
439	</listitem>
440
441	<listitem>
442	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes for the <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis>
443	and <emphasis>copyto</emphasis> commands / API (bug #14336)</para>
444	</listitem>
445
446	<listitem>
447	<para>VBoxManage: list processor features on <emphasis>list
448	hostinfo</emphasis> (bug #15334)</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if
453	<emphasis>CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT</emphasis> is enabled (bug #15327)</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds
458	(bug #15337)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again (5.0.18
463	regression)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint
468	2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	</itemizedlist>
472
473	</sect1>
474
475	<sect1>
476	<title>Version 5.0.18 (2016-04-18)</title>
477
478	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
479	added:</para>
480
481	<itemizedlist>
482
483	<listitem>
484	<para>GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch
485	in consistence with default-behavior (bug #15226)</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>GUI: fixed the <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu /
490	<emphasis>Full-screen Mode</emphasis> behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an
495	empty password</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector
504	when entering a group</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	<listitem>
508	<para>PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only; bug #627)</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>Drag and drop: several fixes</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used</para>
517	</listitem>
518
519	<listitem>
520	<para>Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI
521	controllers (bug #14812)</para>
522	</listitem>
523
524	<listitem>
525	<para>Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the BusLogic
526	SCSI controller is used</para>
527	</listitem>
528
529	<listitem>
530	<para>USB: properly purge non-ASCII characters from USB strings
531	(bugs #8801, #15222)</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>NAT Network: fixed 100% CPU load in VBoxNetNAT on Mac OS X
536	under certain circumstances (bug #15223)</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management
541	settings available again for older Windows versions (4.3.22
542	regression)</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Guest Control: fixed <emphasis>VBoxManage copyfrom</emphasis>
547	command (bug #14336)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots
552	(bug #15206)</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>--verbose</emphasis> output of the
557	<emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis> command</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 10
562	insider builds (bugs #15245, #15296)</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged
567	networking (5.0.16 regression; bug #15209)</para>
568	</listitem>
569
570	<listitem>
571	<para>Windows hosts: don't prevent receiving multicast traffic if
572	host-only adapters are installed (bug #8698)</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when
577	creating raw disks</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules (bug #12608)</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.5 fixes (bug #15251)</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.6 fixes (bug #15298)</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics
594	when X.Org does not have root rights (bug #14732)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis
599	guests using software rendering when 3D acceleration is available</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a hang with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM
604	drivers if Aero is disabled</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	</itemizedlist>
608
609	</sect1>
610
611	<sect1>
612	<title>Version 5.0.16 (2016-03-04)</title>
613
614	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
615	added:</para>
616
617	<itemizedlist>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on
621	AMD CPUs (bugs #14831 and #15186)</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>GUI: don't try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not
626	active or if it's minimized (Windows / Mac OS X hosts only; bug #14302)</para>
627	</listitem>
628
629	<listitem>
630	<para>GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>GUI: sub-menu option to disable the guest-OS type overlay in the
635	application dock icon on Mac OS X</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>GUI: hide the VT-x/AMD-V checkbox if raw-mode is not supported
644	(usually Mac OS X hosts; bug #15178)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on
649	Linux host only</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>Audio: properly handle default audio device changes (Windows hosts)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller (e.g. for webcam
662	passthrough)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>BIOS: fixed int15/AH=83/AL=00 function (4.2.0 regression)</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>Shared folders: fixed a failure to load the saved state under
675	certain circumstances (bug #6314)</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Guest Control: added support for (cached) Active Directory authentication
680	in case the domain controller is not reachable (anymore)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>Serial ports: raised the number of serial ports per VM from 2 to 4
685	(bug #9109)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Serial ports: fix for the TCP/IP backend (Windows hosts only; bug #15188)</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>SDK: make the Python webservice API binding work again (5.0 regression)</para>
694	</listitem>
695
696	<listitem>
697	<para>Seamless mode: fixed a crash under certain circumstances
698	(bug #15106)</para>
699	</listitem>
700
701	<listitem>
702	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the /sbin/rcvboxdrv script as well as the missing
703	shebang in two scripts (bugs #15055 and #15057)</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	<listitem>
707	<para>Linux hosts: properly uninstall Python files installed by the
708	.run installer</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Windows hosts: hardening fix required for recent Windows insider
713	builds (bug #14052)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Windows hosts: fixed Python installation path (bug #13131)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Windows hosts: support MTU larger than 2 KB with bridged
722	networking (bug #15140)</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>Windows hosts / guests: properly sign binaries using a sha-256
727	certificate (bug #15054)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property enumeration of logged-in
732	users</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>Windows Additions: fixed sporadical failure of the graphics driver
737	in Windows 10 guests (bug #14409)</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>Windows Additions: under rare circumstances no mouse movement
742	events were delivered to the guest</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	</itemizedlist>
746	</sect1>
747
748	<sect1>
749	<title>Version 5.0.14 (2016-01-19)</title>
750
751	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
752	added:</para>
753
754	<itemizedlist>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical
758	cores on Mac OS X (bug #15018)</para>
759	</listitem>
760
761	<listitem>
762	<para>Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state
763	of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5.0.12 regression; bug #14981)</para>
764	</listitem>
765
766	<listitem>
767	<para>Audio: don't crash if the backend is unable to initialize
768	(bug #14960)</para>
769	</listitem>
770
771	<listitem>
772	<para>Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #14386)</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	<listitem>
776	<para>Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image
777	multiple times to the same VM (bug #14951)</para>
778	</listitem>
779
780	<listitem>
781	<para>BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the
786	device under certain circumstances (5.0.10 regression; bug #15042)</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to
791	incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy
796	to fail (bug #14958)</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>Linux hosts: properly create the <emphasis>/sbin/rcvboxdrv</emphasis>
801	symbolic link (5.0.12 regression; bug #14989)</para>
802	</listitem>
803
804	<listitem>
805	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan (bug #14677)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5 (bug #15032)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	</itemizedlist>
813	</sect1>
814
815	<sect1>
816	<title>Version 5.0.12 (2015-12-18)</title>
817
818	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
819	added:</para>
820
821	<itemizedlist>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window
825	when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is
834	inserted using the selector UI</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes
839	(bug #14927)</para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug #750)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare
848	conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug #14841)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened
853	to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug #14450)</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>XHCI: several fixes</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug #13487)</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>Audio: several fixes</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard
878	disks(bug #7415)</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are
887	VMs running to prevent file system locking issues</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for
896	VRDP external authentication (bug #14931)</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to
901	a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled (bug #14578)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters
906	to be shown as a single adapter (bugs #14558, #14622)</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only
911	adapters to not appear in the list (bug #14437)</para>
912	</listitem>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related
916	to Windows 10 (bugs #14040, #14545)</para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808)</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>Linux hosts: the command for recompiling the host kernel modules
929	was changed again, to <emphasis>/sbin/rcvboxdrv setup</emphasis> (bug
930	#14723)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly
935	experimental)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain
940	circumstances (bug #14933)</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or
949	output audio device changes</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code
958	elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497)</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass
963	the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none'</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction
968	with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service
969	during while upgrading the Additions</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	</itemizedlist>
973	</sect1>
974
975	<sect1>
976	<title>Version 5.0.10 (2015-11-10)</title>
977
978	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
979	added:</para>
980
981	<itemizedlist>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)</para>
993	</listitem>
994
995	<listitem>
996	<para>GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the
997	VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window
1006	when VM was paused from its runtime window</para>
1007	</listitem>
1008
1009	<listitem>
1010	<para>Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM
1011	pause/unpause (bug #14784)</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	<listitem>
1015	<para>Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is
1016	silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played</para>
1017	</listitem>
1018
1019	<listitem>
1020	<para>Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the
1021	HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)</para>
1022	</listitem>
1023
1024	<listitem>
1025	<para>USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux
1030	kernels older than version 3.3</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>USB: better identification of certain USB devices</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot
1047	or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image
1048	if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image
1049	split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events
1054	at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac
1055	OS X hosts</para>
1056	</listitem>
1057
1058	<listitem>
1059	<para>Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>snapshot restorecurrent /
1064	edit</emphasis> if the VM has no snapshots</para>
1065	</listitem>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
1069	addencpassword</emphasis> (bug #14729)</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length
1082	path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under
1087	certain conditions (bug #14799)</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which
1092	can be used to control the installation to some extent</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation
1097	when showing the version information or help dialogs</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D
1102	requires additional fixes)</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	</itemizedlist>
1106	</sect1>
1107
1108	<sect1>
1109	<title>Version 5.0.8 (2015-10-20)</title>
1110
1111	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1112	added:</para>
1113
1114	<itemizedlist>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows
1118	(it was hidden in previous release to avoid native full-screen issues).
1119	For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the
1120	Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the
1121	Option key.</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in
1126	the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659)</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>API: fixed a 5.0 regression in <emphasis>VBoxManage setproperty
1131	defaultfrontend</emphasis> (bug #14696)</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in
1136	a disk image containing all zeroes</para>
1137	</listitem>
1138
1139	<listitem>
1140	<para>Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm
1141	packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel
1142	modules was changed to <emphasis>/sbin/vboxconfig</emphasis></para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP
1147	only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526)</para>
1148	</listitem>
1149
1150	<listitem>
1151	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic
1152	on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553)</para>
1153	</listitem>
1154
1155	<listitem>
1156	<para>Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution
1157	displays</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows
1162	hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670)</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with
1167	systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	</itemizedlist>
1171
1172	</sect1>
1173
1174	<sect1>
1175	<title>Version 5.0.6 (2015-10-02)</title>
1176
1177	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1178	added:</para>
1179
1180	<itemizedlist>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by
1184	default</para>
1185	</listitem>
1186
1187	<listitem>
1188	<para>GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close
1189	dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the
1190	bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912,
1191	#12749)</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565)</para>
1196	</listitem>
1197
1198	<listitem>
1199	<para>GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486)</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings
1204	need to be changed at VM startup (5.0 regression; bug #14601)</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs
1209	to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP
1214	checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615).</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>Audio: latency fixes (Windows hosts only; bug #4088)</para>
1219	</listitem>
1220
1221	<listitem>
1222	<para>Guest Control: correctly set <emphasis>USERNAME</emphasis> and
1223	<emphasis>USERPROFILE</emphasis> environment variables (Windows
1224	guests only)</para>
1225	</listitem>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>Guest Control: several fixes</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to
1233	a snapshot</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports
1238	for a VM</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of <emphasis>debugvm show</emphasis>
1243	command</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with
1248	<emphasis>debugvm log</emphasis> starting with
1249	<emphasis>h</emphasis>, for example <emphasis>hex</emphasis></para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>Windows hosts: renamed <emphasis>VBoxStartup.log</emphasis> to
1254	<emphasis>VBoxHardening.log</emphasis> and provide this log file in
1255	the GUI log viewer</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface
1260	driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled
1261	(bug #14562)</para>
1262	</listitem>
1263
1264	<listitem>
1265	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll
1266	is not available (bug #14574)</para>
1267	</listitem>
1268
1269	<listitem>
1270	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for <emphasis>VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE</emphasis>
1271	errors (bug #14579)</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking
1276	(bugs #14326, #14457)</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with
1281	the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Linux hosts: installer fix for certain systems (bug #14627)</para>
1290	</listitem>
1291
1292	<listitem>
1293	<para>Linux hosts / guests: native systemd support for the host/guest
1294	installer scripts. The scripts for re-compiling the kernel modules
1295	are now located at /sbin/rcvboxdrv (host) and /sbin/rcvboxadd
1296	(Guest Additions)</para>
1297	</listitem>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GUI-related fixes for El Capitan</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a problem with capturing USB devices under
1305	El Capitan</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>Mac OS X hosts: allow colon character on shared folders (bug #14554)</para>
1310	</listitem>
1311
1312	<listitem>
1313	<para>Linux Additions: properly set the VBoxService process ID in the PID
1314	file (bug #14571)</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>Linux Additions: Guest Control fixes (bug #14573)</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shutting down VBoxTray when running with
1323	older VirtualBox host versions</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Windows Additions: fixed video playback with VLC and Windows Media
1328	Player when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is not used</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>Windows Additions: prevent a possible VLC crash when the WDDM driver
1333	is used and 3D is enabled by implementing YV12 surfaces</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	</itemizedlist>
1337	</sect1>
1338
1339	<sect1>
1340	<title>Version 5.0.4 (2015-09-08)</title>
1341
1342	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1343	added:</para>
1344
1345	<itemizedlist>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the
1349	network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the
1354	'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512)</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384)</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the
1367	location of the root certificates (bug #13096)</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll
1372	lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302)</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support
1377	are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
1378	</listitem>
1379
1380	<listitem>
1381	<para>GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when
1382	used in multi-screen setups</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes</para>
1387	</listitem>
1388
1389	<listitem>
1390	<para>Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	<listitem>
1394	<para>Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression;
1395	Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)</para>
1396	</listitem>
1397
1398	<listitem>
1399	<para>Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off
1400	formerly</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream
1405	and host device don't match</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would
1410	be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were
1415	compacted (bug #14496)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516)</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment
1424	mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF
1429	(bug #14462)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434)</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest
1438	transfers</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter
1443	type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken <emphasis>guestcontrol <VM-Name> list</emphasis>
1448	command (5.0 regression)</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell
1457	and later; bug #14412)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression;
1462	bug #14476)</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus
1471	service isn't running (bug #14543)</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>Windows hosts: fixed the <emphasis>VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE</emphasis>
1476	error message (bug #14420)</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437)</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during
1489	VM start/shutdown with bridged networking (bug #14500)</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function
1494	(bug #14415)</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the
1499	vboxvideo module fails (bug #14547)</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic
1504	resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	</itemizedlist>
1508
1509	</sect1>
1510	<sect1>
1511	<title>Version 5.0.2 (2015-08-13)</title>
1512
1513	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1514	added:</para>
1515
1516	<itemizedlist>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V
1520	paravirtualization</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>VMM: fixed an issue causing artificially high load averages on
1525	Linux hosts</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by
1530	incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled
1535	(5.0 regression; bug #14304)</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED</emphasis>
1540	Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370)</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM
1545	debug facility (5.0 regression)</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and
1550	AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be
1551	properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262).</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	<listitem>
1555	<para>GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff</para>
1556	</listitem>
1557
1558	<listitem>
1559	<para>GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt <emphasis>alien
1560	widgets</emphasis> feature</para>
1561	</listitem>
1562
1563	<listitem>
1564	<para>GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order,
1565	transparency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257)</para>
1566	</listitem>
1567
1568	<listitem>
1569	<para>GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers
1570	(bug #14284)</para>
1571	</listitem>
1572
1573	<listitem>
1574	<para>GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on
1575	full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches</para>
1576	</listitem>
1577
1578	<listitem>
1579	<para>GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed
1580	when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol</para>
1581	</listitem>
1582
1583	<listitem>
1584	<para>GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly
1585	created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)</para>
1586	</listitem>
1587
1588	<listitem>
1589	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized',
1590	watch for the strict window geometry instead</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances
1595	(5.0 regression; bug #14303)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at
1600	VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216)</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination
1609	(5.0 regression)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting
1614	any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt
1615	by the host (bug #14219)</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares
1632	(bug #14252)</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and
1637	guests with different path separators (bug #14153)</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved
1642	state is started (bug #13957)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid)
1647	UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350)</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which
1652	have a session open</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting
1657	for paravirtualization (bug #14390)</para>
1658	</listitem>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes</para>
1662	</listitem>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs
1666	from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351)</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on
1671	Windows 10 (bug #14040)</para>
1672	</listitem>
1673
1674	<listitem>
1675	<para>Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432)</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
1680	and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host
1685	network interface (bug #13795)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes (bug #14227)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>Linux Additions: improved the performance of
1694	<emphasis>stat()</emphasis> to speed up certain file operations
1695	on shared folders</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver
1700	with Windows 10 (bug #14190)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including
1709	invisible windows under LXDE.</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	</itemizedlist>
1713	</sect1>
1714
1715	<sect1>
1716	<title>Version 5.0.0 (2015-07-09)</title>
1717
1718	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
1719	were added:</para>
1720
1721	<itemizedlist>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve
1725	time-keeping accuracy and performance (see <xref linkend="gimproviders" />)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when
1730	running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among
1731	others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI,
1732	<emphasis>POPCNT</emphasis>, <emphasis>RDRAND</emphasis> and
1733	<emphasis>RDSEED</emphasis></para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices
1738	(see <xref linkend="settings-usb" />)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Disk image encryption (see <xref linkend="diskencryption" />)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>VMs can now be started in <emphasis>separate mode</emphasis>. The VM
1751	process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process
1752	which can be terminated without stopping the VM.</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar,
1761	menu-bar and guest-content scaling</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for
1766	disk images</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI
1771	output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host
1780	audio backends</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista
1785	and later)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	</itemizedlist>
1789
1790	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1791
1792	<itemizedlist>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts
1796	without preemption timers</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and
1801	guest timekeeping</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's
1806	FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>VMM: several fixes</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts.
1819	The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state.</para>
1820	</listitem>
1821
1822	<listitem>
1823	<para>GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the
1824	preview window</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM
1833	is already paused</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
1838	of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
1839	import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
1840	several times</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting
1849	(bug #13157)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>USB: added USB traffic capturing (see <xref linkend="usbtrafficcapturing" />)</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
1862	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
1863	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
1864	config corruption</para>
1865	</listitem>
1866
1867	<listitem>
1868	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
1869	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>API: fix information for some automatically generated events
1874	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
1875	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
1876	(bug #12379)</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
1881	happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
1882	</listitem>
1883
1884	<listitem>
1885	<para>API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also
1886	be changed when the VM is in saved state</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were
1891	previously paused due to a host-suspend</para>
1892	</listitem>
1893
1894	<listitem>
1895	<para>API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag
1896	during cloning of a VM</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162)</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when
1909	the VM is powered off</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during
1914	VM poweroff</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1
1919	characters (bug #14159)</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM
1924	termination</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see <xref linkend="serialports"/>)</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Storage: added USB mass storage device class
1937	(see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers"/>)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Storage: added <emphasis>vbox-img</emphasis> standalone tool for
1942	direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions
1947	(bug #13105)</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>NAT: fixed several potential crashes</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes
1956	down</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name
1961	at VM runtime</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device
1966	more than once on OS X</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should
1975	fix old Linux guests with AHCI</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated
1980	OHCI controller</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux
1985	ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021)</para>
1994	</listitem>
1995
1996	<listitem>
1997	<para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
1998	</listitem>
1999
2000	<listitem>
2001	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore
2006	certain events (bug #12264)</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic
2015	if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service
2024	(see <xref linkend="heartbeatservice" />)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd
2029	without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and
2034	allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
2035	</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>Linux Additions: added <emphasis>-s</emphasis> parameter to
2040	<emphasis>mount.vboxsf</emphasis> to be sloppy with invalid parameters</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris'
2053	fast-reboot feature</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	</itemizedlist>
2057
2058	</sect1>
2059
2060	<sect1>
2061	<title>Version 4.3.28 (2015-05-13)</title>
2062
2063	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2064	added:</para>
2065
2066	<itemizedlist>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for
2070	example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI</para>
2071	</listitem>
2072
2073	<listitem>
2074	<para>VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare
2075	<emphasis>VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR</emphasis> Guru Meditations (VT-x only)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus
2080	(Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
2081	</listitem>
2082
2083	<listitem>
2084	<para>GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on
2085	certain hosts</para>
2086	</listitem>
2087
2088	<listitem>
2089	<para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)</para>
2090	</listitem>
2091
2092	<listitem>
2093	<para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context
2110	fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>Floppy: several fixes</para>
2115	</listitem>
2116
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the
2119	HD audio device emulation</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5
2124	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore
2129	(Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs,
2134	only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah
2147	(4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)</para>
2148	</listitem>
2149
2150	<listitem>
2151	<para>Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests
2152	(bug #13157)</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more
2157	webcam models</para>
2158	</listitem>
2159
2160	<listitem>
2161	<para>API: don't fail starting a VM with <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
2162	under certain conditions (bug #13617)</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>API: be more verbose on <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
2167	if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize
2172	events with multi-monitor guests</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3</para>
2181	</listitem>
2182
2183	<listitem>
2184	<para>Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)</para>
2185	</listitem>
2186
2187	<listitem>
2188	<para>Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
2189	and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
2190	</listitem>
2191
2192	<listitem>
2193	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)</para>
2194	</listitem>
2195
2196	<listitem>
2197	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based
2198	bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare
2203	circumstances</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow
2208	more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while
2217	installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	</itemizedlist>
2221	</sect1>
2222
2223	<sect1>
2224	<title>Version 4.3.26 (2015-03-16)</title>
2225
2226	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2227	added:</para>
2228
2229	<itemizedlist>
2230
2231	<listitem>
2232	<para>GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against
2233	wrong host time (bug #13955)</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS
2238	name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
2239	(4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on
2244	Windows hosts</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare
2249	conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression;
2250	bug #13935)</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the
2255	change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)</para>
2256	</listitem>
2257
2258	<listitem>
2259	<para>VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again
2268	(4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell
2281	and later; bug #13951)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)</para>
2286	</listitem>
2287
2288	</itemizedlist>
2289	</sect1>
2290
2291	<sect1>
2292	<title>Version 4.3.24 (2015-03-02)</title>
2293
2294	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2295	added:</para>
2296
2297	<itemizedlist>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>VMM: emulation fix for the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> instruction
2301	under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without
2302	unrestricted guest execution)</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease
2311	was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the
2316	DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only;
2317	bug #13874)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts
2322	only; bug #13842)
2323	</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression;
2328	bug #13786)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio
2333	backend</para>
2334	</listitem>
2335
2336	<listitem>
2337	<para>VBoxManage: when executing the <emphasis>controlvm</emphasis> command
2338	take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently
2339	(bug #13892)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll
2344	on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression;
2353	bug #13825)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	</itemizedlist>
2357	</sect1>
2358
2359	<sect1>
2360	<title>Version 4.3.22 (2015-02-12)</title>
2361
2362	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2363	added:</para>
2364
2365	<itemizedlist>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves
2369	timekeeping for guests</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the
2374	virtual APIC</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using
2379	the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential
2384	misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update
2389	check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest,
2394	we have the ACPI power button for that</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from
2399	snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings
2404	(bug #10250)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio
2413	input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the
2422	IDE controller (bug #12310)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to
2431	guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP
2436	and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified
2441	network" (bug #9688)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to
2446	the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
2447	(bug #13714)</para>
2448	</listitem>
2449
2450	<listitem>
2451	<para>Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading
2452	to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
2457	(bug #13773)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME
2462	at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile
2463	directory (bug #7689)</para>
2464	</listitem>
2465
2466	<listitem>
2467	<para>API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
2468	(bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)</para>
2469	</listitem>
2470
2471	<listitem>
2472	<para>API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads,
2473	sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander
2474	Urakov)</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox
2479	webservice API binding (bug #13817)</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later,
2484	bug #13820)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens
2489	on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17</para>
2494	</listitem>
2495
2496	<listitem>
2497	<para>X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus
2498	is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)</para>
2499	</listitem>
2500
2501	<listitem>
2502	<para>Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host
2503	reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over
2504	Remote Desktop connection.</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit
2513	Linux 2.4 kernels</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading
2518	the VBoxGuest module</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	</itemizedlist>
2526	</sect1>
2527
2528	<sect1>
2529	<title>Version 4.3.20 (2014-11-21)</title>
2530
2531	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2532	added:</para>
2533
2534	<itemizedlist>
2535
2536	<listitem>
2537	<para>VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bugs #13319,
2538	#13462)</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
2543	legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
2548	on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only;
2549	bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>GUI: fix 3D overlay window reparenting issue when VM goes to
2554	fullscreen mode on X11 hosts</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11
2559	host systems (4.3.16 regression)</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button
2564	(bug #12541)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the
2569	new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port
2574	(bug #8534)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
2579	command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>ACPI: fixed occassional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code
2584	(4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)</para>
2585	</listitem>
2586
2587	<listitem>
2588	<para>EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented
2593	Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs
2598	(bugs #11103 and #13211)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Storage: fixed a crash under certain cicrumstances when a medium
2603	was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without
2604	inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM
2605	(4.3.16 regression) </para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests
2610	or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to
2615	a full disk if host I/O caching is used</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when
2620	using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode
2621	(4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during
2626	recursive copy</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>SDK: Java COM bindings fixes</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)</para>
2635	</listitem>
2636
2637	<listitem>
2638	<para>Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads
2639	during initialization (bug #13038)</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
2644	to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
2645	(4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions
2650	(bug #13418)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression
2655	whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing
2660	Windows 7 or newer guests</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)</para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	</itemizedlist>
2668	</sect1>
2669
2670	<sect1>
2671	<title>Version 4.3.18 (2014-10-10)</title>
2672
2673	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2674	added:</para>
2675
2676	<itemizedlist>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state
2680	from a saved state</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions
2685	for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by
2690	mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode
2695	as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see
2696	<xref linkend="legacy-fullscreen-mode" xreflabel="here"/> (bug #13365)</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen
2701	when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to
2706	VBox in full-screen mode</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen
2711	mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under
2716	certain circumstances (bug #11960)</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the
2721	storage devices attached to the SATA controller</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386,
2730	#13435)</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP
2735	rules</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	<listitem>
2739	<para>USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and
2740	several other fixes</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file
2753	which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
2758	to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
2759	(4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	<listitem>
2763	<para>Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child
2764	process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties
2777	which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel
2782	log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	</itemizedlist>
2786	</sect1>
2787
2788	<sect1>
2789	<title>Version 4.3.16 (2014-09-09)</title>
2790
2791	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2792	added:</para>
2793
2794	<itemizedlist>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs
2798	and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size
2803	after exiting full-screen/seamless mode</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with
2808	3D guest rendering</para>
2809	</listitem>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition
2813	was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen
2818	multi-screen mapping API</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture
2823	behavior, see <xref linkend="mouse-capture" xreflabel="here"/>
2824	(bug #3506)</para>
2825	</listitem>
2826
2827	<listitem>
2828	<para>Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with
2829	authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)</para>
2830	</listitem>
2831
2832	<listitem>
2833	<para>Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another
2834	allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running
2847	under control of QEMM</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on Mac OS X host</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>3D: several fixes</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging
2872	to a wireless interface</para>
2873	</listitem>
2874
2875	<listitem>
2876	<para>NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode
2877	when host was switched from one network to another one while host was
2878	sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying
2883	outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)</para>
2888	</listitem>
2889
2890	<listitem>
2891	<para>NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on
2892	Windows hosts (bug #12136)</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts</para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS
2905	and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP
2906	datagrams</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain Mac OS X guests
2919	(e.g. Mountain Lion)</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
2924	to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped
2929	working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work
2934	(bug #8745)</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately
2939	released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages
2944	when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>Linux guests: stop applications crashing when <emphasis>drm_wait_vblank</emphasis>
2949	is called (bug #13265)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)</para>
2954	</listitem>
2955
2956	<listitem>
2957	<para>X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection
2958	(bug #13107)</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)</para>
2963	</listitem>
2964
2965	<listitem>
2966	<para>X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which
2967	caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows
2972	kernel debugging, details see <ulink type=""
2973	url="http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/">http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/</ulink></para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	</itemizedlist>
2977	</sect1>
2978
2979	<sect1>
2980	<title>Version 4.3.14 (2014-07-15)</title>
2981
2982	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2983	added:</para>
2984
2985	<itemizedlist>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs
2989	#12784, #12949, #13034)</para>
2990	</listitem>
2991
2992	<listitem>
2993	<para>VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only
2994	relevant for the ICH9 chipset)</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit
2999	and the <emphasis>SYSCALL</emphasis> instruction (VT-x only;
3000	4.3 regression; bug #13008)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests</para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI</para>
3009	</listitem>
3010
3011	<listitem>
3012	<para>GUI: fixed a potential crash</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other
3025	trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the
3030	location of the root certificates (bug #13096)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>VBoxManage: fixed typo in <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
3035	(bug #13176)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions
3044	(bug #10034)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP
3053	connections over IPv6</para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows
3058	hosts</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X
3071	and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X</para>
3072	</listitem>
3073
3074	<listitem>
3075	<para>Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP <emphasis>ifConnectorPresent</emphasis>
3076	value on Windows (bug #13143)</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under
3081	certain circumstances</para>
3082	</listitem>
3083
3084	<listitem>
3085	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED
3086	or QCOW image (bug #12613)</para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	<listitem>
3090	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare
3091	circumstances</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
3096	</listitem>
3097
3098	<listitem>
3099	<para>USB: performance fixes</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after
3108	resuming the host</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than
3113	4GB guest memory</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>3D: several fixes</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories</para>
3126	</listitem>
3127
3128	<listitem>
3129	<para>Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)</para>
3130	</listitem>
3131
3132	<listitem>
3133	<para>Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions
3134	of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)</para>
3139	</listitem>
3140
3141	<listitem>
3142	<para>Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider
3143	BlueRay devices</para>
3144	</listitem>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed host shutdown and reboot delay caused by running VBoxSVC
3148	process in some cases</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories
3157	located on shared folders</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after
3162	installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation</para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	</itemizedlist>
3166
3167	</sect1>
3168
3169	<sect1>
3170	<title>Version 4.3.12 (2014-05-16)</title>
3171
3172	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3173	added:</para>
3174
3175	<itemizedlist>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only;
3179	bugs #12727, #12954)</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB
3184	entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)</para>
3185	</listitem>
3186
3187	<listitem>
3188	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> Guru Meditation
3189	seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12240,
3194	#12875)</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and
3199	multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting
3208	full-screen/seamless mode</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot
3213	(bug #12700)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused
3238	by iSCSI service activity</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host
3243	when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after
3256	the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter
3265	(Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
3266	</listitem>
3267
3268	<listitem>
3269	<para>Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems
3278	(bug #12262)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper
3283	(bug #12879)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for
3288	users without a password (bug #12994)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process
3293	terminated with <emphasis>VERR_INTERRUPTED</emphasis> to the host</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	</itemizedlist>
3297
3298	</sect1>
3299
3300	<sect1>
3301	<title>Version 4.3.10 (2014-03-26)</title>
3302
3303	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3304	added:</para>
3305
3306	<itemizedlist>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
3310	on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686,
3311	#12770)</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without
3316	unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is
3321	not available</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for
3326	Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which
3331	doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts:
3336	fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default;
3337	bug #12758)</para>
3338	</listitem>
3339
3340	<listitem>
3341	<para>GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu
3342	(bug #12862)</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest
3347	export (bug #12586)</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several
3356	guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots
3361	under certain conditions</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path
3366	exists under /dev (bug #12760)</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage
3371	medium was attached or removed at VM runtime</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>Windows installer: make the <emphasis>--silent</emphasis>
3376	parameter work again (bug #12764)</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from
3381	leaking to wire (bug #12750)</para>
3382	</listitem>
3383
3384	<listitem>
3385	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes
3386	(4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)</para>
3387	</listitem>
3388
3389	<listitem>
3390	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with
3391	multiple guest screens under certain conditions</para>
3392	</listitem>
3393
3394	<listitem>
3395	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video
3396	acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems
3401	with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting
3406	correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	</itemizedlist>
3410	</sect1>
3411
3412	<sect1>
3413	<title>Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)</title>
3414
3415	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3416	added:</para>
3417
3418	<itemizedlist>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
3422	(e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_INVALID_RPL</emphasis> Guru Meditation
3427	when booting certain guests (bug #11350)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see
3432	the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651)</para>
3433	</listitem>
3434
3435	<listitem>
3436	<para>VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see
3441	<xref linkend="hidledssync" xreflabel="here"/></para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and
3446	the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in
3451	full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)</para>
3452	</listitem>
3453
3454	<listitem>
3455	<para>GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box
3456	replaced with corresponding button</para>
3457	</listitem>
3458
3459	<listitem>
3460	<para>GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through
3461	the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar
3462	indicator</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts
3467	by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types
3468	(bug #12533)</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>GUI: better error message if appliance import fails
3473	(bug #12657)</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings
3478	/ Input page (bug #12730)</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot
3483	merge (4.3 regression)</para>
3484	</listitem>
3485
3486	<listitem>
3487	<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
3488	of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
3489	import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
3490	several times</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain
3499	circumstances</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
3504	SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration
3521	changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used
3522	(bug #12441)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with
3527	ICMP packets having TTL=1</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>NAT Network: ping proxy implemented</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element
3540	(4.3 regression; bug #12345)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	<listitem>
3556	<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest
3561	Additions are active (bug #6649)</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare
3566	circumstances</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives</para>
3571	</listitem>
3572
3573	<listitem>
3574	<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
3575	happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
3576	</listitem>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events
3580	(see <xref linkend="hostpowertweaks" xreflabel="here"/>) and
3581	added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low
3582	event (bug #9925)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot
3587	was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups
3588	(bug #12569)</para>
3589	</listitem>
3590
3591	<listitem>
3592	<para>VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in <emphasis>/bin</emphasis>
3593	(bug #12713)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders
3598	when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in
3603	the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network
3604	(bug #12241)</para>
3605	</listitem>
3606
3607	<listitem>
3608	<para>Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining
3609	the number of physical CPU cores</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation
3614	fails (bug #11171)</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar
3623	environment contents (bug #12596)</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
3628	environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on
3641	XPDM -> WDDM upgrade</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
3646	environment variables</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
3651	(bug #12505)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already
3660	mounted</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	</itemizedlist>
3668
3669	</sect1>
3670
3671	<sect1>
3672	<title>Version 4.3.6 (2013-12-18)</title>
3673
3674	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3675	added:</para>
3676
3677	<itemizedlist>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
3681	caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE</emphasis>
3686	while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT</emphasis>
3691	while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC</emphasis> error when trying
3696	to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately,
3697	VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard
3698	these states (bug #12414)</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests
3703	(bug #12245)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression; bug
3708	#12205)</para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors
3713	(bug #12480)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if
3718	VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)</para>
3719	</listitem>
3720
3721	<listitem>
3722	<para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
3723	(bug #12017)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change
3728	(bug #7063)</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling
3733	<emphasis>IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()</emphasis> (bug #12498)</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes
3738	due to GUI unavailability</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
3743	rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
3744	</listitem>
3745
3746	<listitem>
3747	<para>Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
3752	the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
3753	initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
3758	hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
3759	</listitem>
3760
3761	<listitem>
3762	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones
3763	(4.3 regression; bug #12271)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	</itemizedlist>
3767
3768	</sect1>
3769
3770	<sect1>
3771	<title>Version 4.3.4 (2013-11-29)</title>
3772
3773	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3774	added:</para>
3775
3776	<itemizedlist>
3777
3778	<listitem>
3779	<para>VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when
3780	booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)</para>
3781	</listitem>
3782
3783	<listitem>
3784	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled
3785	(4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)</para>
3786	</listitem>
3787
3788	<listitem>
3789	<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain
3790	instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting
3795	a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when
3800	the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>VMM: fixed occasional <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> errors on
3805	hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no
3810	Guest Additions are installed</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen
3815	resize</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
3820	the exported appliance</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual
3829	look and feel styles (bug #11743)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after
3834	VM reboot or shutdown</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>GUI: fixes for medium enumeration</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
3843	is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot
3848	if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces
3853	(4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
3858	access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
3863	and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting /
3868	terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration
3869	changes</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating
3874	(bug #12264)</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
3879	(bug #9194)</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI
3884	controller enabled</para>
3885	</listitem>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
3889	where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0
3894	regression)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization
3899	(bug #12349)</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
3904	VMs</para>
3905	</listitem>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format
3909	during OVF import</para>
3910	</listitem>
3911
3912	<listitem>
3913	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
3914	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
3915	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
3916	config corruption</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
3921	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
3926	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
3927	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
3928	(bug #12379)</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help
3937	(bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)</para>
3938	</listitem>
3939
3940	<listitem>
3941	<para>Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency
3942	(bug #6242)</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional,
3947	contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks
3952	hosts (bug #12256)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
3957	not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
3958	Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
3971	OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
3976	(bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video
3989	modes for each virtual monitor</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows
3994	guests (bug #12332)</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	</itemizedlist>
3998	</sect1>
3999
4000	<sect1>
4001	<title>Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)</title>
4002
4003	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4004	added:</para>
4005
4006	<itemizedlist>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host
4010	BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts
4011	(bug #12237)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on
4016	certain hosts</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would
4021	not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests
4026	that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized
4031	VMs (bug #12222)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured
4036	to use software virtualization</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change
4041	(when switching from normal to full screen etc)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a
4046	saved state if the host screen size changed</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization
4051	(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see
4056	<xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
4057	</listitem>
4058
4059	<listitem>
4060	<para>Guest Control: implemented more <computeroutput>IGuestSession</computeroutput>
4061	methods</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in
4066	VBoxManage</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting
4075	in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting
4076	re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled
4081	(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>3D support: miscellaneous fixes</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty
4090	to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain
4095	circumstances</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent
4104	storage</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias
4113	from the VM selector</para>
4114	</listitem>
4115
4116	<listitem>
4117	<para>Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade
4118	(bug #12258)</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	<listitem>
4122	<para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
4123	(bug #12166)</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503,
4128	thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
4129	</listitem>
4130
4131	<listitem>
4132	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)</para>
4137	</listitem>
4138
4139	<listitem>
4140	<para>Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	</itemizedlist>
4148	</sect1>
4149
4150	<sect1>
4151	<title>Version 4.3.0 (2013-10-15)</title>
4152
4153	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
4154	were added:</para>
4155
4156	<itemizedlist>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including
4160	many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for
4165	situations not handled by hardware virtualization</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays
4170	used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences
4175	extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for
4176	VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)</para>
4181	</listitem>
4182
4183	<listitem>
4184	<para>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>Added experimental support for webcam passthrough
4189	complementing USB passthrough (see <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	<listitem>
4193	<para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
4202	session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>Guest Control: implemented <computeroutput>IGuestFile</computeroutput>
4207	support</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
4212	attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
4213	service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
4214	</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	</itemizedlist>
4218
4219	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4220
4221	<itemizedlist>
4222
4223	<listitem>
4224	<para>VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x
4225	guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	<listitem>
4233	<para>VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch
4234	(bug #10532)</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more
4239	information if that is not possible</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes</para>
4248	</listitem>
4249
4250	<listitem>
4251	<para>GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s)
4252	and host (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	<listitem>
4256	<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
4257	hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of
4262	the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned
4263	too many virtual CPUs to the guest</para>
4264	</listitem>
4265
4266	<listitem>
4267	<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
4268	</listitem>
4269
4270	<listitem>
4271	<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
4276	emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
4281	transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
4282	</listitem>
4283
4284	<listitem>
4285	<para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
4286	to change existing media geometry)
4287	</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
4292	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
4297	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
4302	by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
4307	native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes
4312	other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the
4313	consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more
4314	than approximately 100 VMs</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
4319	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM
4324	modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
4329	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
4330	option to show really all available details</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
4335	the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
4340	processes and/or guest files via
4341	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes\|files></computeroutput>
4342	</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
4347	<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>\|
4348	--session-name <name or pattern>\|--all</computeroutput>
4349	</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
4354	<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill\|close\|terminate --session-id <ID>\|
4355	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
4356	or
4357	<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>\|
4358	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
4359	</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
4364	<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
4365	</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>modifyvm --triplefaultreset</computeroutput>
4370	to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation
4371	(see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvm"/>)</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
4388	special characters</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
4393	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
4398	by François Revol</para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
4407	StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
4412	hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
4417	(bug #11962)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
4422	when plugged into USB 3.0 ports</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
4427	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation()
4432	on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through
4437	the newly introduced event <emphasis>IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</emphasis></para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
4442	with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	</itemizedlist>
4446
4447	</sect1>
4448
4449	</chapter>

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