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5	<sect1>
6	<title>Version 5.1.4 (2016-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>dummy</para>
15	</listitem>
16
17	</itemizedlist>
18	</sect1>
19
20	<sect1>
21	<title>Version 5.1.2 (2016-07-21)</title>
22
23	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
24	added:</para>
25
26	<itemizedlist>
27
28	<listitem>
29	<para>VMM: several fixes</para>
30	</listitem>
31
32	<listitem>
33	<para>GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>GUI: fixed issue with double-click/opening registered file types
38	(.vbox and .vbox-extpack) on Mac OS X (bug #15648)</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>GUI: fixed a bug which made it impossible close some error/warning
43	messages using the close button</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>GUI: weakened the control over the VM window behavior allowing to resize
48	it across multiple screens and to use in Snap Assist techniques</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>GUI: jump to the second tab of the session information window
53	(5.1.0 regression)</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>GUI: fix for Alt-Tab</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>Storage: fixed creating fixed size VHD images (bug #15601)</para>
62	</listitem>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>Storage: fixed a hang during power off if the VM was suspended
66	before and a NVMe controller is configured</para>
67	</listitem>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>Audio: make AC'97 volume control work again (5.1.0 regression;
75	bug #15598)</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>Audio: fixed rare VM hangs when using AC'97 emulation</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>Audio: SB16 fixes</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and
88	higher (bug #15607)</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>OVA: fix for checking certain signatures</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>OVA: fixed MAC address generation for appliances created by
97	VirtualBox (5.1.0 regression; bug #15623)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>API: fixed audio settings handling for older config files
102	(bug #15626)</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>API: fixed truncation of USB product/vendor IDs on Linux
107	hosts (5.1.0 regression; bug #15644)</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>API: fixed VRDP with authentication (bug #15653)</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>API: don't crash if there is no graphics controller configured
116	(bug #15628)</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>Linux hosts: fixed EL5 builds (bug #15634)</para>
121	</listitem>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>non-Windows hosts: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare
125	circumstances (bug #15568)</para>
126	</listitem>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux issue which prevented certain
130	Linux guests to work in 3D mode (bug #15574)</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>User Manual: updates</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	</itemizedlist>
138	</sect1>
139
140	<sect1>
141	<title>Version 5.1.0 (2016-07-12)</title>
142
143	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
144	were added:</para>
145
146	<itemizedlist>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved
150	performance in certain situations (for example with networking, bug #15295)</para>
151	</listitem>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to
159	user mode</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>GUI: overall migration to Qt5 (bug #11775)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and
168	response time</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance
177	and reduce the CPU consumption</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC'97 emulation, which now also
182	takes the master volume control into account</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>better support for Python 3</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	</itemizedlist>
190
191	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
192
193	<itemizedlist>
194
195	<listitem>
196	<para>VMM: activate the x2APIC by default for Linux guests</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>VMM: many more fixes</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>GUI: the <emphasis>Detach UI</emphasis> action is now a part of the
205	VM Machine menu</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: reworked session information window</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>GUI: the new VM wizard now allows to choose the VM location for the VM
214	which is being created</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>GUI: fixed location of touch events in unscaled HiDPI mode
219	(bugs #14366, #14367)</para>
220	</listitem>
221
222	<listitem>
223	<para>GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup</para>
224	</listitem>
225
226	<listitem>
227	<para>Storage: use <emphasis>fallocate()</emphasis> or similar if present to speed
228	up creating fixed-sized disk images (bug #5967)</para>
229	</listitem>
230
231	<listitem>
232	<para>Storage: implemented NVMHCI-compatible storage controller</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Audio: various bugfixes and infrastructure improvements</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>E1000: implemented interrupt throttling for performance improvements</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>EFI: many improvements, for example allow to boot from USB</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>OVF: improved handling of signed manifests</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>API: Windows XP guests and Windows 2003 server guests now default to
253	the E1000 T Server network card</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>Installers: ship VBoxBugReport</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Windows hosts: reworked COM proxy (e.g. bug #8298)</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Linux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>Linux Additions: fix a problem when updating the initramfs after
274	the guest modules are compiled (bug #15579)</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>Linux Additions: try to fix a problem where the OpenGL libraries
279	where loaded by the X server when we only support X clients
280	(bug #15574)</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	</itemizedlist>
284
285	</sect1>
286
287	<sect1>
288	<title>Version 5.0.24 (2016-06-28)</title>
289
290	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
291	added:</para>
292
293	<itemizedlist>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>VMM: reverted to the old I/O-APIC code for now to fix certain
297	regressions with 5.0.22 (bug #15529). This means that the networking
298	performance with certain guests will drop to the 5.0.20 level
299	(bug #15295). One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests.</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Main: when taking a screenshot, don't save garbage for blanked
304	screens</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>NAT: correctly parse resolv.conf file with multiple
309	separators (5.0.22 regression)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>Storage: fixed a possible corruption of stream optimized
314	VMDK images from VMware when opened in read/write mode for the
315	first time</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>ACPI: notify the guest when the battery / AC state changes instead
320	of relying on guest polling</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>Linux hosts: fixed <emphasis>VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME</emphasis>
325	Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later (bug #15439)</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>Solaris hosts: make the GUI work on Solaris 10 again (bug #15549)</para>
330	</listitem>
331
332	</itemizedlist>
333	</sect1>
334
335	<sect1>
336	<title>Version 5.0.22 (2016-06-16)</title>
337
338	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
339	added:</para>
340
341	<itemizedlist>
342
343	<listitem>
344	<para>VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #14915)</para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests
349	on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving
354	the performance under certain conditions (bug #15295 and others)</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	<listitem>
358	<para>VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	<listitem>
362	<para>VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on
363	Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution
372	(bug #15432)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D
377	enabled</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts
382	avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix
383	NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in
384	particular when the host uses OpnVPN.</para>
385	</listitem>
386
387	<listitem>
388	<para>Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server
389	cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service
390	is using the same port</para>
391	</listitem>
392
393	<listitem>
394	<para>NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard
395	port-forwarding rules with default guest address (bug #15412)</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	<listitem>
399	<para>VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash
400	under certain conditions (bug #14811)</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI
405	controller created by 3rd party applications</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>Windows hosts: fixed performance regresson with SMP guests
414	(5.0 regression)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>Windows hosts: fixes for the shared clipboard</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>Windows hosts: Windows hardening fix</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>Windows Additions: fixes to retain the guest display layout
427	when resizing or disabling the guest monitors</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix (bug #15411)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix (bug #15459)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes (bug #15444)</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests (5.0.18
444	regression; bug #15320)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset (5.0.18
449	regression; bug #15324)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with
454	kernels 3.11 and later (5.0.18 regression; bug #15319)</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset
459	(5.0.18 regression; bug #15354)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the
464	shared folders module fails (5.0.18 regression)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service
469	is not available on the host</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	</itemizedlist>
477	</sect1>
478
479	<sect1>
480	<title>Version 5.0.20 (2016-04-28)</title>
481
482	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
483	added:</para>
484
485	<itemizedlist>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS
489	to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller
490	(5.0.18 regression; bug #15317)</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI
495	controller emulation</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as
500	in bug #14736 for NAT)</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570)</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	<listitem>
508	<para>NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types
509	and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all
510	NAT traffic</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more
515	network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses
516	ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)</para>
517	</listitem>
518
519	<listitem>
520	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes for the <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis>
521	and <emphasis>copyto</emphasis> commands / API (bug #14336)</para>
522	</listitem>
523
524	<listitem>
525	<para>VBoxManage: list processor features on <emphasis>list
526	hostinfo</emphasis> (bug #15334)</para>
527	</listitem>
528
529	<listitem>
530	<para>Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if
531	<emphasis>CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT</emphasis> is enabled (bug #15327)</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds
536	(bug #15337)</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again (5.0.18
541	regression)</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint
546	2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	</itemizedlist>
550
551	</sect1>
552
553	<sect1>
554	<title>Version 5.0.18 (2016-04-18)</title>
555
556	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
557	added:</para>
558
559	<itemizedlist>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch
563	in consistence with default-behavior (bug #15226)</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>GUI: fixed the <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu /
568	<emphasis>Full-screen Mode</emphasis> behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an
573	empty password</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector
582	when entering a group</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only; bug #627)</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Drag and drop: several fixes</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI
599	controllers (bug #14812)</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the BusLogic
604	SCSI controller is used</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>USB: properly purge non-ASCII characters from USB strings
609	(bugs #8801, #15222)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>NAT Network: fixed 100% CPU load in VBoxNetNAT on Mac OS X
614	under certain circumstances (bug #15223)</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management
619	settings available again for older Windows versions (4.3.22
620	regression)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Guest Control: fixed <emphasis>VBoxManage copyfrom</emphasis>
625	command (bug #14336)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots
630	(bug #15206)</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>--verbose</emphasis> output of the
635	<emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis> command</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 10
640	insider builds (bugs #15245, #15296)</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged
645	networking (5.0.16 regression; bug #15209)</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>Windows hosts: don't prevent receiving multicast traffic if
650	host-only adapters are installed (bug #8698)</para>
651	</listitem>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when
655	creating raw disks</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules (bug #12608)</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.5 fixes (bug #15251)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.6 fixes (bug #15298)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics
672	when X.Org does not have root rights (bug #14732)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis
677	guests using software rendering when 3D acceleration is available</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a hang with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM
682	drivers if Aero is disabled</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	</itemizedlist>
686
687	</sect1>
688
689	<sect1>
690	<title>Version 5.0.16 (2016-03-04)</title>
691
692	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
693	added:</para>
694
695	<itemizedlist>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on
699	AMD CPUs (bugs #14831 and #15186)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>GUI: don't try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not
704	active or if it's minimized (Windows / Mac OS X hosts only; bug #14302)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>GUI: sub-menu option to disable the guest-OS type overlay in the
713	application dock icon on Mac OS X</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>GUI: hide the VT-x/AMD-V checkbox if raw-mode is not supported
722	(usually Mac OS X hosts; bug #15178)</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on
727	Linux host only</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>Audio: properly handle default audio device changes (Windows hosts)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller (e.g. for webcam
740	passthrough)</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>BIOS: fixed int15/AH=83/AL=00 function (4.2.0 regression)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>Shared folders: fixed a failure to load the saved state under
753	certain circumstances (bug #6314)</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Guest Control: added support for (cached) Active Directory authentication
758	in case the domain controller is not reachable (anymore)</para>
759	</listitem>
760
761	<listitem>
762	<para>Serial ports: raised the number of serial ports per VM from 2 to 4
763	(bug #9109)</para>
764	</listitem>
765
766	<listitem>
767	<para>Serial ports: fix for the TCP/IP backend (Windows hosts only; bug #15188)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	<listitem>
771	<para>SDK: make the Python webservice API binding work again (5.0 regression)</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>Seamless mode: fixed a crash under certain circumstances
776	(bug #15106)</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the /sbin/rcvboxdrv script as well as the missing
781	shebang in two scripts (bugs #15055 and #15057)</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>Linux hosts: properly uninstall Python files installed by the
786	.run installer</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>Windows hosts: hardening fix required for recent Windows insider
791	builds (bug #14052)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>Windows hosts: fixed Python installation path (bug #13131)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>Windows hosts: support MTU larger than 2 KB with bridged
800	networking (bug #15140)</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>Windows hosts / guests: properly sign binaries using a sha-256
805	certificate (bug #15054)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property enumeration of logged-in
810	users</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>Windows Additions: fixed sporadical failure of the graphics driver
815	in Windows 10 guests (bug #14409)</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>Windows Additions: under rare circumstances no mouse movement
820	events were delivered to the guest</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	</itemizedlist>
824	</sect1>
825
826	<sect1>
827	<title>Version 5.0.14 (2016-01-19)</title>
828
829	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
830	added:</para>
831
832	<itemizedlist>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical
836	cores on Mac OS X (bug #15018)</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state
841	of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5.0.12 regression; bug #14981)</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Audio: don't crash if the backend is unable to initialize
846	(bug #14960)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #14386)</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image
855	multiple times to the same VM (bug #14951)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached</para>
860	</listitem>
861
862	<listitem>
863	<para>USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the
864	device under certain circumstances (5.0.10 regression; bug #15042)</para>
865	</listitem>
866
867	<listitem>
868	<para>ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to
869	incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy
874	to fail (bug #14958)</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>Linux hosts: properly create the <emphasis>/sbin/rcvboxdrv</emphasis>
879	symbolic link (5.0.12 regression; bug #14989)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan (bug #14677)</para>
884	</listitem>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5 (bug #15032)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	</itemizedlist>
891	</sect1>
892
893	<sect1>
894	<title>Version 5.0.12 (2015-12-18)</title>
895
896	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
897	added:</para>
898
899	<itemizedlist>
900
901	<listitem>
902	<para>GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window
903	when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is
912	inserted using the selector UI</para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes
917	(bug #14927)</para>
918	</listitem>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug #750)</para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare
926	conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug #14841)</para>
927	</listitem>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened
931	to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug #14450)</para>
932	</listitem>
933
934	<listitem>
935	<para>Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>XHCI: several fixes</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug #13487)</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>Audio: several fixes</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard
956	disks(bug #7415)</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	<listitem>
960	<para>EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are
965	VMs running to prevent file system locking issues</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for
974	VRDP external authentication (bug #14931)</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to
979	a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled (bug #14578)</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters
984	to be shown as a single adapter (bugs #14558, #14622)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only
989	adapters to not appear in the list (bug #14437)</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related
994	to Windows 10 (bugs #14040, #14545)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808)</para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866)</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>Linux hosts: the command for recompiling the host kernel modules
1007	was changed again, to <emphasis>/sbin/rcvboxdrv setup</emphasis> (bug
1008	#14723)</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly
1013	experimental)</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain
1018	circumstances (bug #14933)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or
1027	output audio device changes</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code
1036	elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497)</para>
1037	</listitem>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass
1041	the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none'</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction
1046	with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service
1047	during while upgrading the Additions</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	</itemizedlist>
1051	</sect1>
1052
1053	<sect1>
1054	<title>Version 5.0.10 (2015-11-10)</title>
1055
1056	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1057	added:</para>
1058
1059	<itemizedlist>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the
1075	VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window
1084	when VM was paused from its runtime window</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM
1089	pause/unpause (bug #14784)</para>
1090	</listitem>
1091
1092	<listitem>
1093	<para>Audio: properly reset AC'97 audio streams, otherwise there is
1094	silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played</para>
1095	</listitem>
1096
1097	<listitem>
1098	<para>Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the
1099	HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux
1108	kernels older than version 3.3</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>USB: better identification of certain USB devices</para>
1113	</listitem>
1114
1115	<listitem>
1116	<para>NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot
1125	or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image
1126	if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image
1127	split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events
1132	at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac
1133	OS X hosts</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>snapshot restorecurrent /
1142	edit</emphasis> if the VM has no snapshots</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
1147	addencpassword</emphasis> (bug #14729)</para>
1148	</listitem>
1149
1150	<listitem>
1151	<para>Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts</para>
1152	</listitem>
1153
1154	<listitem>
1155	<para>Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication</para>
1156	</listitem>
1157
1158	<listitem>
1159	<para>Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length
1160	path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)</para>
1161	</listitem>
1162
1163	<listitem>
1164	<para>Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under
1165	certain conditions (bug #14799)</para>
1166	</listitem>
1167
1168	<listitem>
1169	<para>Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which
1170	can be used to control the installation to some extent</para>
1171	</listitem>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation
1175	when showing the version information or help dialogs</para>
1176	</listitem>
1177
1178	<listitem>
1179	<para>X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D
1180	requires additional fixes)</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	</itemizedlist>
1184	</sect1>
1185
1186	<sect1>
1187	<title>Version 5.0.8 (2015-10-20)</title>
1188
1189	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1190	added:</para>
1191
1192	<itemizedlist>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows
1196	(it was hidden in previous release to avoid native full-screen issues).
1197	For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the
1198	Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the
1199	Option key.</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in
1204	the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659)</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>API: fixed a 5.0 regression in <emphasis>VBoxManage setproperty
1209	defaultfrontend</emphasis> (bug #14696)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in
1214	a disk image containing all zeroes</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm
1219	packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel
1220	modules was changed to <emphasis>/sbin/vboxconfig</emphasis></para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP
1225	only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526)</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic
1230	on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553)</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution
1235	displays</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows
1240	hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670)</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with
1245	systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683)</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	</itemizedlist>
1249
1250	</sect1>
1251
1252	<sect1>
1253	<title>Version 5.0.6 (2015-10-02)</title>
1254
1255	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1256	added:</para>
1257
1258	<itemizedlist>
1259
1260	<listitem>
1261	<para>GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by
1262	default</para>
1263	</listitem>
1264
1265	<listitem>
1266	<para>GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close
1267	dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the
1268	bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912,
1269	#12749)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486)</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings
1282	need to be changed at VM startup (5.0 regression; bug #14601)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs
1287	to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646)</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP
1292	checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615).</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>Audio: latency fixes (Windows hosts only; bug #4088)</para>
1297	</listitem>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>Guest Control: correctly set <emphasis>USERNAME</emphasis> and
1301	<emphasis>USERPROFILE</emphasis> environment variables (Windows
1302	guests only)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>Guest Control: several fixes</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to
1311	a snapshot</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports
1316	for a VM</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of <emphasis>debugvm show</emphasis>
1321	command</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with
1326	<emphasis>debugvm log</emphasis> starting with
1327	<emphasis>h</emphasis>, for example <emphasis>hex</emphasis></para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>Windows hosts: renamed <emphasis>VBoxStartup.log</emphasis> to
1332	<emphasis>VBoxHardening.log</emphasis> and provide this log file in
1333	the GUI log viewer</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface
1338	driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled
1339	(bug #14562)</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll
1344	is not available (bug #14574)</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for <emphasis>VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE</emphasis>
1349	errors (bug #14579)</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking
1354	(bugs #14326, #14457)</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with
1359	the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed</para>
1360	</listitem>
1361
1362	<listitem>
1363	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>Linux hosts: installer fix for certain systems (bug #14627)</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>Linux hosts / guests: native systemd support for the host/guest
1372	installer scripts. The scripts for re-compiling the kernel modules
1373	are now located at /sbin/rcvboxdrv (host) and /sbin/rcvboxadd
1374	(Guest Additions)</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GUI-related fixes for El Capitan</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a problem with capturing USB devices under
1383	El Capitan</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Mac OS X hosts: allow colon character on shared folders (bug #14554)</para>
1388	</listitem>
1389
1390	<listitem>
1391	<para>Linux Additions: properly set the VBoxService process ID in the PID
1392	file (bug #14571)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Linux Additions: Guest Control fixes (bug #14573)</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shutting down VBoxTray when running with
1401	older VirtualBox host versions</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>Windows Additions: fixed video playback with VLC and Windows Media
1406	Player when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is not used</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>Windows Additions: prevent a possible VLC crash when the WDDM driver
1411	is used and 3D is enabled by implementing YV12 surfaces</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	</itemizedlist>
1415	</sect1>
1416
1417	<sect1>
1418	<title>Version 5.0.4 (2015-09-08)</title>
1419
1420	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1421	added:</para>
1422
1423	<itemizedlist>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the
1427	network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs</para>
1428	</listitem>
1429
1430	<listitem>
1431	<para>VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the
1432	'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512)</para>
1433	</listitem>
1434
1435	<listitem>
1436	<para>GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384)</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the
1445	location of the root certificates (bug #13096)</para>
1446	</listitem>
1447
1448	<listitem>
1449	<para>GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll
1450	lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302)</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support
1455	are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
1456	</listitem>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when
1460	used in multi-screen setups</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression;
1473	Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off
1478	formerly</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream
1483	and host device don't match</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would
1488	be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461)</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were
1493	compacted (bug #14496)</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516)</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment
1502	mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF
1507	(bug #14462)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434)</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest
1516	transfers</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter
1521	type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken <emphasis>guestcontrol <VM-Name> list</emphasis>
1526	command (5.0 regression)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell
1535	and later; bug #14412)</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression;
1540	bug #14476)</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus
1549	service isn't running (bug #14543)</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>Windows hosts: fixed the <emphasis>VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE</emphasis>
1554	error message (bug #14420)</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502)</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437)</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during
1567	VM start/shutdown with bridged networking (bug #14500)</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function
1572	(bug #14415)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the
1577	vboxvideo module fails (bug #14547)</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic
1582	resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	</itemizedlist>
1586
1587	</sect1>
1588	<sect1>
1589	<title>Version 5.0.2 (2015-08-13)</title>
1590
1591	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1592	added:</para>
1593
1594	<itemizedlist>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V
1598	paravirtualization</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>VMM: fixed an issue causing artificially high load averages on
1603	Linux hosts</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by
1608	incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled
1613	(5.0 regression; bug #14304)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED</emphasis>
1618	Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370)</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM
1623	debug facility (5.0 regression)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and
1628	AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be
1629	properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262).</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt <emphasis>alien
1638	widgets</emphasis> feature</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order,
1643	transparency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257)</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers
1648	(bug #14284)</para>
1649	</listitem>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on
1653	full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed
1658	when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly
1663	created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized',
1668	watch for the strict window geometry instead</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances
1673	(5.0 regression; bug #14303)</para>
1674	</listitem>
1675
1676	<listitem>
1677	<para>VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at
1678	VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216)</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination
1687	(5.0 regression)</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting
1692	any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt
1693	by the host (bug #14219)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists</para>
1698	</listitem>
1699
1700	<listitem>
1701	<para>Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares
1710	(bug #14252)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and
1715	guests with different path separators (bug #14153)</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved
1720	state is started (bug #13957)</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid)
1725	UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which
1730	have a session open</para>
1731	</listitem>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting
1735	for paravirtualization (bug #14390)</para>
1736	</listitem>
1737
1738	<listitem>
1739	<para>Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs
1744	from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351)</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on
1749	Windows 10 (bug #14040)</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432)</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755
1756	<listitem>
1757	<para>Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
1758	and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host
1763	network interface (bug #13795)</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes (bug #14227)</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>Linux Additions: improved the performance of
1772	<emphasis>stat()</emphasis> to speed up certain file operations
1773	on shared folders</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver
1778	with Windows 10 (bug #14190)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including
1787	invisible windows under LXDE.</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	</itemizedlist>
1791	</sect1>
1792
1793	<sect1>
1794	<title>Version 5.0.0 (2015-07-09)</title>
1795
1796	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
1797	were added:</para>
1798
1799	<itemizedlist>
1800
1801	<listitem>
1802	<para>Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve
1803	time-keeping accuracy and performance (see <xref linkend="gimproviders" />)</para>
1804	</listitem>
1805
1806	<listitem>
1807	<para>Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when
1808	running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among
1809	others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI,
1810	<emphasis>POPCNT</emphasis>, <emphasis>RDRAND</emphasis> and
1811	<emphasis>RDSEED</emphasis></para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices
1816	(see <xref linkend="settings-usb" />)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>Disk image encryption (see <xref linkend="diskencryption" />)</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>VMs can now be started in <emphasis>separate mode</emphasis>. The VM
1829	process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process
1830	which can be terminated without stopping the VM.</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar,
1839	menu-bar and guest-content scaling</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for
1844	disk images</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI
1849	output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host
1858	audio backends</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista
1863	and later)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	</itemizedlist>
1867
1868	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1869
1870	<itemizedlist>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts
1874	without preemption timers</para>
1875	</listitem>
1876
1877	<listitem>
1878	<para>VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and
1879	guest timekeeping</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's
1884	FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>VMM: several fixes</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts.
1897	The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state.</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the
1902	preview window</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM
1911	is already paused</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
1916	of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
1917	import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
1918	several times</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting
1927	(bug #13157)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>USB: added USB traffic capturing (see <xref linkend="usbtrafficcapturing" />)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
1940	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
1941	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
1942	config corruption</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
1947	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>API: fix information for some automatically generated events
1952	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
1953	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
1954	(bug #12379)</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
1959	happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also
1964	be changed when the VM is in saved state</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were
1969	previously paused due to a host-suspend</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag
1974	during cloning of a VM</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162)</para>
1979	</listitem>
1980
1981	<listitem>
1982	<para>VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when
1987	the VM is powered off</para>
1988	</listitem>
1989
1990	<listitem>
1991	<para>VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during
1992	VM poweroff</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1
1997	characters (bug #14159)</para>
1998	</listitem>
1999
2000	<listitem>
2001	<para>3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM
2002	termination</para>
2003	</listitem>
2004
2005	<listitem>
2006	<para>3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see <xref linkend="serialports"/>)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>Storage: added USB mass storage device class
2015	(see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers"/>)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>Storage: added <emphasis>vbox-img</emphasis> standalone tool for
2020	direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions
2025	(bug #13105)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>NAT: fixed several potential crashes</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes
2034	down</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name
2039	at VM runtime</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device
2044	more than once on OS X</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should
2053	fix old Linux guests with AHCI</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated
2058	OHCI controller</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC'97 audio codec type so Linux
2063	ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore
2084	certain events (bug #12264)</para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic
2093	if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service
2102	(see <xref linkend="heartbeatservice" />)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd
2107	without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and
2112	allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
2113	</para>
2114	</listitem>
2115
2116	<listitem>
2117	<para>Linux Additions: added <emphasis>-s</emphasis> parameter to
2118	<emphasis>mount.vboxsf</emphasis> to be sloppy with invalid parameters</para>
2119	</listitem>
2120
2121	<listitem>
2122	<para>X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151)</para>
2123	</listitem>
2124
2125	<listitem>
2126	<para>Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris'
2131	fast-reboot feature</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	</itemizedlist>
2135
2136	</sect1>
2137
2138	<sect1>
2139	<title>Version 4.3.28 (2015-05-13)</title>
2140
2141	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2142	added:</para>
2143
2144	<itemizedlist>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for
2148	example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare
2153	<emphasis>VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR</emphasis> Guru Meditations (VT-x only)</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus
2158	(Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on
2163	certain hosts</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)</para>
2176	</listitem>
2177
2178	<listitem>
2179	<para>VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context
2188	fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>Floppy: several fixes</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the
2197	HD audio device emulation</para>
2198	</listitem>
2199
2200	<listitem>
2201	<para>USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5
2202	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2203	</listitem>
2204
2205	<listitem>
2206	<para>PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore
2207	(Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs,
2212	only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah
2225	(4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests
2230	(bug #13157)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more
2235	webcam models</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>API: don't fail starting a VM with <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
2240	under certain conditions (bug #13617)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>API: be more verbose on <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
2245	if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize
2250	events with multi-monitor guests</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
2267	and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based
2276	bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare
2281	circumstances</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow
2286	more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while
2295	installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	</itemizedlist>
2299	</sect1>
2300
2301	<sect1>
2302	<title>Version 4.3.26 (2015-03-16)</title>
2303
2304	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2305	added:</para>
2306
2307	<itemizedlist>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against
2311	wrong host time (bug #13955)</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS
2316	name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
2317	(4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on
2322	Windows hosts</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare
2327	conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression;
2328	bug #13935)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the
2333	change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)</para>
2334	</listitem>
2335
2336	<listitem>
2337	<para>VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again
2346	(4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions</para>
2351	</listitem>
2352
2353	<listitem>
2354	<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell
2359	and later; bug #13951)</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)</para>
2364	</listitem>
2365
2366	</itemizedlist>
2367	</sect1>
2368
2369	<sect1>
2370	<title>Version 4.3.24 (2015-03-02)</title>
2371
2372	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2373	added:</para>
2374
2375	<itemizedlist>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>VMM: emulation fix for the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> instruction
2379	under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without
2380	unrestricted guest execution)</para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease
2389	was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the
2394	DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only;
2395	bug #13874)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts
2400	only; bug #13842)
2401	</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression;
2406	bug #13786)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio
2411	backend</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>VBoxManage: when executing the <emphasis>controlvm</emphasis> command
2416	take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently
2417	(bug #13892)</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll
2422	on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression;
2431	bug #13825)</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	</itemizedlist>
2435	</sect1>
2436
2437	<sect1>
2438	<title>Version 4.3.22 (2015-02-12)</title>
2439
2440	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2441	added:</para>
2442
2443	<itemizedlist>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves
2447	timekeeping for guests</para>
2448	</listitem>
2449
2450	<listitem>
2451	<para>VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the
2452	virtual APIC</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using
2457	the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential
2462	misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update
2467	check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest,
2472	we have the ACPI power button for that</para>
2473	</listitem>
2474
2475	<listitem>
2476	<para>GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from
2477	snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings
2482	(bug #10250)</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio
2491	input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the
2500	IDE controller (bug #12310)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to
2509	guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP
2514	and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified
2519	network" (bug #9688)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to
2524	the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
2525	(bug #13714)</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading
2530	to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
2535	(bug #13773)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME
2540	at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile
2541	directory (bug #7689)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
2546	(bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads,
2551	sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander
2552	Urakov)</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox
2557	webservice API binding (bug #13817)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later,
2562	bug #13820)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens
2567	on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus
2576	is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)</para>
2577	</listitem>
2578
2579	<listitem>
2580	<para>Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host
2581	reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over
2582	Remote Desktop connection.</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit
2591	Linux 2.4 kernels</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading
2596	the VBoxGuest module</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	</itemizedlist>
2604	</sect1>
2605
2606	<sect1>
2607	<title>Version 4.3.20 (2014-11-21)</title>
2608
2609	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2610	added:</para>
2611
2612	<itemizedlist>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bugs #13319,
2616	#13462)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
2621	legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
2626	on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only;
2627	bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)</para>
2628	</listitem>
2629
2630	<listitem>
2631	<para>GUI: fix 3D overlay window reparenting issue when VM goes to
2632	fullscreen mode on X11 hosts</para>
2633	</listitem>
2634
2635	<listitem>
2636	<para>GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11
2637	host systems (4.3.16 regression)</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button
2642	(bug #12541)</para>
2643	</listitem>
2644
2645	<listitem>
2646	<para>GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the
2647	new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port
2652	(bug #8534)</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	<listitem>
2656	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
2657	command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)</para>
2658	</listitem>
2659
2660	<listitem>
2661	<para>ACPI: fixed occassional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code
2662	(4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented
2671	Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)</para>
2672	</listitem>
2673
2674	<listitem>
2675	<para>EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs
2676	(bugs #11103 and #13211)</para>
2677	</listitem>
2678
2679	<listitem>
2680	<para>Storage: fixed a crash under certain cicrumstances when a medium
2681	was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without
2682	inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM
2683	(4.3.16 regression) </para>
2684	</listitem>
2685
2686	<listitem>
2687	<para>Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests
2688	or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to
2693	a full disk if host I/O caching is used</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when
2698	using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode
2699	(4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during
2704	recursive copy</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>SDK: Java COM bindings fixes</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads
2717	during initialization (bug #13038)</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
2722	to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
2723	(4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions
2728	(bug #13418)</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression
2733	whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing
2738	Windows 7 or newer guests</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)</para>
2743	</listitem>
2744
2745	</itemizedlist>
2746	</sect1>
2747
2748	<sect1>
2749	<title>Version 4.3.18 (2014-10-10)</title>
2750
2751	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2752	added:</para>
2753
2754	<itemizedlist>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state
2758	from a saved state</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions
2763	for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	<listitem>
2767	<para>GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by
2768	mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode
2773	as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see
2774	<xref linkend="legacy-fullscreen-mode" xreflabel="here"/> (bug #13365)</para>
2775	</listitem>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen
2779	when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to
2784	VBox in full-screen mode</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen
2789	mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under
2794	certain circumstances (bug #11960)</para>
2795	</listitem>
2796
2797	<listitem>
2798	<para>Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the
2799	storage devices attached to the SATA controller</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386,
2808	#13435)</para>
2809	</listitem>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP
2813	rules</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and
2818	several other fixes</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file
2831	which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
2836	to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
2837	(4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
2838	</listitem>
2839
2840	<listitem>
2841	<para>Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child
2842	process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties
2855	which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel
2860	log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	</itemizedlist>
2864	</sect1>
2865
2866	<sect1>
2867	<title>Version 4.3.16 (2014-09-09)</title>
2868
2869	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2870	added:</para>
2871
2872	<itemizedlist>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs
2876	and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size
2881	after exiting full-screen/seamless mode</para>
2882	</listitem>
2883
2884	<listitem>
2885	<para>GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with
2886	3D guest rendering</para>
2887	</listitem>
2888
2889	<listitem>
2890	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition
2891	was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute</para>
2892	</listitem>
2893
2894	<listitem>
2895	<para>GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen
2896	multi-screen mapping API</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture
2901	behavior, see <xref linkend="mouse-capture" xreflabel="here"/>
2902	(bug #3506)</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with
2907	authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another
2912	allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller</para>
2921	</listitem>
2922
2923	<listitem>
2924	<para>Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running
2925	under control of QEMM</para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on Mac OS X host</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>3D: several fixes</para>
2946	</listitem>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging
2950	to a wireless interface</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode
2955	when host was switched from one network to another one while host was
2956	sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying
2961	outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on
2970	Windows hosts (bug #12136)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS
2983	and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP
2984	datagrams</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain Mac OS X guests
2997	(e.g. Mountain Lion)</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
3002	to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped
3007	working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work
3012	(bug #8745)</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately
3017	released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)</para>
3018	</listitem>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages
3022	when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>Linux guests: stop applications crashing when <emphasis>drm_wait_vblank</emphasis>
3027	is called (bug #13265)</para>
3028	</listitem>
3029
3030	<listitem>
3031	<para>Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)</para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection
3036	(bug #13107)</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which
3045	caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows
3050	kernel debugging, details see <ulink type=""
3051	url="http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/">http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/</ulink></para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	</itemizedlist>
3055	</sect1>
3056
3057	<sect1>
3058	<title>Version 4.3.14 (2014-07-15)</title>
3059
3060	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3061	added:</para>
3062
3063	<itemizedlist>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs
3067	#12784, #12949, #13034)</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only
3072	relevant for the ICH9 chipset)</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit
3077	and the <emphasis>SYSCALL</emphasis> instruction (VT-x only;
3078	4.3 regression; bug #13008)</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI</para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	<listitem>
3090	<para>GUI: fixed a potential crash</para>
3091	</listitem>
3092
3093	<listitem>
3094	<para>GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)</para>
3095	</listitem>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other
3103	trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the
3108	location of the root certificates (bug #13096)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>VBoxManage: fixed typo in <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
3113	(bug #13176)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions
3122	(bug #10034)</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP
3131	connections over IPv6</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows
3136	hosts</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X
3149	and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP <emphasis>ifConnectorPresent</emphasis>
3154	value on Windows (bug #13143)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under
3159	certain circumstances</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED
3164	or QCOW image (bug #12613)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare
3169	circumstances</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>USB: performance fixes</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after
3186	resuming the host</para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than
3191	4GB guest memory</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>3D: several fixes</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions
3212	of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider
3221	BlueRay devices</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed host shutdown and reboot delay caused by running VBoxSVC
3226	process in some cases</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)</para>
3231	</listitem>
3232
3233	<listitem>
3234	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories
3235	located on shared folders</para>
3236	</listitem>
3237
3238	<listitem>
3239	<para>Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after
3240	installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation</para>
3241	</listitem>
3242
3243	</itemizedlist>
3244
3245	</sect1>
3246
3247	<sect1>
3248	<title>Version 4.3.12 (2014-05-16)</title>
3249
3250	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3251	added:</para>
3252
3253	<itemizedlist>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only;
3257	bugs #12727, #12954)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB
3262	entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> Guru Meditation
3267	seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12240,
3272	#12875)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and
3277	multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting
3286	full-screen/seamless mode</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot
3291	(bug #12700)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
3296	</listitem>
3297
3298	<listitem>
3299	<para>API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions</para>
3300	</listitem>
3301
3302	<listitem>
3303	<para>NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	<listitem>
3307	<para>NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused
3316	by iSCSI service activity</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host
3321	when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after
3334	the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter
3343	(Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems
3356	(bug #12262)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper
3361	(bug #12879)</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for
3366	users without a password (bug #12994)</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process
3371	terminated with <emphasis>VERR_INTERRUPTED</emphasis> to the host</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	</itemizedlist>
3375
3376	</sect1>
3377
3378	<sect1>
3379	<title>Version 4.3.10 (2014-03-26)</title>
3380
3381	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3382	added:</para>
3383
3384	<itemizedlist>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
3388	on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686,
3389	#12770)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without
3394	unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)</para>
3395	</listitem>
3396
3397	<listitem>
3398	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is
3399	not available</para>
3400	</listitem>
3401
3402	<listitem>
3403	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for
3404	Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which
3409	doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts:
3414	fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default;
3415	bug #12758)</para>
3416	</listitem>
3417
3418	<listitem>
3419	<para>GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu
3420	(bug #12862)</para>
3421	</listitem>
3422
3423	<listitem>
3424	<para>OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest
3425	export (bug #12586)</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several
3434	guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots
3439	under certain conditions</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path
3444	exists under /dev (bug #12760)</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage
3449	medium was attached or removed at VM runtime</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Windows installer: make the <emphasis>--silent</emphasis>
3454	parameter work again (bug #12764)</para>
3455	</listitem>
3456
3457	<listitem>
3458	<para>Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from
3459	leaking to wire (bug #12750)</para>
3460	</listitem>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes
3464	(4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)</para>
3465	</listitem>
3466
3467	<listitem>
3468	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with
3469	multiple guest screens under certain conditions</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video
3474	acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems
3479	with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)</para>
3480	</listitem>
3481
3482	<listitem>
3483	<para>X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting
3484	correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	</itemizedlist>
3488	</sect1>
3489
3490	<sect1>
3491	<title>Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)</title>
3492
3493	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3494	added:</para>
3495
3496	<itemizedlist>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
3500	(e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_INVALID_RPL</emphasis> Guru Meditation
3505	when booting certain guests (bug #11350)</para>
3506	</listitem>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see
3510	the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see
3519	<xref linkend="hidledssync" xreflabel="here"/></para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and
3524	the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in
3529	full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box
3534	replaced with corresponding button</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through
3539	the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar
3540	indicator</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts
3545	by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types
3546	(bug #12533)</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>GUI: better error message if appliance import fails
3551	(bug #12657)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings
3556	/ Input page (bug #12730)</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot
3561	merge (4.3 regression)</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
3566	of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
3567	import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
3568	several times</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain
3577	circumstances</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
3582	SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes</para>
3595	</listitem>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration
3599	changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used
3600	(bug #12441)</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with
3605	ICMP packets having TTL=1</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>NAT Network: ping proxy implemented</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element
3618	(4.3 regression; bug #12345)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest
3639	Additions are active (bug #6649)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare
3644	circumstances</para>
3645	</listitem>
3646
3647	<listitem>
3648	<para>BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives</para>
3649	</listitem>
3650
3651	<listitem>
3652	<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
3653	happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events
3658	(see <xref linkend="hostpowertweaks" xreflabel="here"/>) and
3659	added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low
3660	event (bug #9925)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot
3665	was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups
3666	(bug #12569)</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in <emphasis>/bin</emphasis>
3671	(bug #12713)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders
3676	when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in
3681	the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network
3682	(bug #12241)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining
3687	the number of physical CPU cores</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation
3692	fails (bug #11171)</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar
3701	environment contents (bug #12596)</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
3706	environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users</para>
3715	</listitem>
3716
3717	<listitem>
3718	<para>Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on
3719	XPDM -> WDDM upgrade</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
3724	environment variables</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
3729	(bug #12505)</para>
3730	</listitem>
3731
3732	<listitem>
3733	<para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already
3738	mounted</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	</itemizedlist>
3746
3747	</sect1>
3748
3749	<sect1>
3750	<title>Version 4.3.6 (2013-12-18)</title>
3751
3752	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3753	added:</para>
3754
3755	<itemizedlist>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
3759	caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE</emphasis>
3764	while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT</emphasis>
3769	while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC</emphasis> error when trying
3774	to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately,
3775	VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard
3776	these states (bug #12414)</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<para>VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests
3781	(bug #12245)</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression; bug
3786	#12205)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors
3791	(bug #12480)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if
3796	VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
3801	(bug #12017)</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change
3806	(bug #7063)</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling
3811	<emphasis>IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()</emphasis> (bug #12498)</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes
3816	due to GUI unavailability</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
3821	rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
3830	the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
3831	initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
3836	hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones
3841	(4.3 regression; bug #12271)</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	</itemizedlist>
3845
3846	</sect1>
3847
3848	<sect1>
3849	<title>Version 4.3.4 (2013-11-29)</title>
3850
3851	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3852	added:</para>
3853
3854	<itemizedlist>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when
3858	booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled
3863	(4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain
3868	instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting
3873	a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)</para>
3874	</listitem>
3875
3876	<listitem>
3877	<para>VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when
3878	the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>VMM: fixed occasional <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> errors on
3883	hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no
3888	Guest Additions are installed</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen
3893	resize</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
3898	the exported appliance</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual
3907	look and feel styles (bug #11743)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after
3912	VM reboot or shutdown</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>GUI: fixes for medium enumeration</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
3921	is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot
3926	if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces
3931	(4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
3936	access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
3941	and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
3942	</listitem>
3943
3944	<listitem>
3945	<para>NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting /
3946	terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration
3947	changes</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating
3952	(bug #12264)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
3957	(bug #9194)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI
3962	controller enabled</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
3967	where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0
3972	regression)</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization
3977	(bug #12349)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
3982	VMs</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format
3987	during OVF import</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
3992	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
3993	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
3994	config corruption</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
3999	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
4004	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
4005	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
4006	(bug #12379)</para>
4007	</listitem>
4008
4009	<listitem>
4010	<para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help
4015	(bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency
4020	(bug #6242)</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional,
4025	contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)</para>
4026	</listitem>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks
4030	hosts (bug #12256)</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
4035	not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
4036	Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
4049	OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
4054	(bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video
4067	modes for each virtual monitor</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows
4072	guests (bug #12332)</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	</itemizedlist>
4076	</sect1>
4077
4078	<sect1>
4079	<title>Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)</title>
4080
4081	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4082	added:</para>
4083
4084	<itemizedlist>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host
4088	BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts
4089	(bug #12237)</para>
4090	</listitem>
4091
4092	<listitem>
4093	<para>VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on
4094	certain hosts</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would
4099	not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests
4104	that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized
4109	VMs (bug #12222)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured
4114	to use software virtualization</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change
4119	(when switching from normal to full screen etc)</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a
4124	saved state if the host screen size changed</para>
4125	</listitem>
4126
4127	<listitem>
4128	<para>GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization
4129	(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see
4134	<xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>Guest Control: implemented more <computeroutput>IGuestSession</computeroutput>
4139	methods</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in
4144	VBoxManage</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting
4153	in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting
4154	re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	<listitem>
4158	<para>3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled
4159	(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>3D support: miscellaneous fixes</para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty
4168	to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain
4173	circumstances</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent
4182	storage</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias
4191	from the VM selector</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade
4196	(bug #12258)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
4201	(bug #12166)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503,
4206	thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)</para>
4211	</listitem>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering</para>
4219	</listitem>
4220
4221	<listitem>
4222	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	</itemizedlist>
4226	</sect1>
4227
4228	<sect1>
4229	<title>Version 4.3.0 (2013-10-15)</title>
4230
4231	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
4232	were added:</para>
4233
4234	<itemizedlist>
4235
4236	<listitem>
4237	<para>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including
4238	many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
4239	</listitem>
4240
4241	<listitem>
4242	<para>VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for
4243	situations not handled by hardware virtualization</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays
4248	used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)</para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences
4253	extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for
4254	VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)</para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>Added experimental support for webcam passthrough
4267	complementing USB passthrough (see <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
4268	</listitem>
4269
4270	<listitem>
4271	<para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
4280	session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Guest Control: implemented <computeroutput>IGuestFile</computeroutput>
4285	support</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
4290	attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
4291	service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
4292	</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	</itemizedlist>
4296
4297	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4298
4299	<itemizedlist>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x
4303	guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch
4312	(bug #10532)</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more
4317	information if that is not possible</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s)
4330	and host (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
4335	hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of
4340	the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned
4341	too many virtual CPUs to the guest</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
4354	emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
4359	transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
4364	to change existing media geometry)
4365	</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
4370	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
4375	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
4380	by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
4385	native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes
4390	other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the
4391	consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more
4392	than approximately 100 VMs</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
4397	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM
4402	modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
4407	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
4408	option to show really all available details</para>
4409	</listitem>
4410
4411	<listitem>
4412	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
4413	the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
4418	processes and/or guest files via
4419	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes\|files></computeroutput>
4420	</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	<listitem>
4424	<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
4425	<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>\|
4426	--session-name <name or pattern>\|--all</computeroutput>
4427	</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
4432	<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill\|close\|terminate --session-id <ID>\|
4433	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
4434	or
4435	<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>\|
4436	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
4437	</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
4442	<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
4443	</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>modifyvm --triplefaultreset</computeroutput>
4448	to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation
4449	(see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvm"/>)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
4466	special characters</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
4471	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
4476	by François Revol</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
4485	StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
4490	hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
4495	(bug #11962)</para>
4496	</listitem>
4497
4498	<listitem>
4499	<para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
4500	when plugged into USB 3.0 ports</para>
4501	</listitem>
4502
4503	<listitem>
4504	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
4505	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
4506	</listitem>
4507
4508	<listitem>
4509	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation()
4510	on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through
4515	the newly introduced event <emphasis>IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</emphasis></para>
4516	</listitem>
4517
4518	<listitem>
4519	<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
4520	with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
4521	</listitem>
4522
4523	</itemizedlist>
4524
4525	</sect1>
4526
4527	</chapter>

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