| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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| 2 | <!-- Release change log structure
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Each release has a matching log of changes which were made for that and
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| 5 | earlier releases. Earlier releases means anything with a lower number (e.g.
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| 6 | 5.0.18 is lower than 5.1.2) which was released before this one. The log is
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| 7 | kept in the file doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml. Anything worth mentioning,
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| 8 | particularly new features and fixed bugs, with a trac bug number if possible,
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| 9 | should be added to the top of the change log (that is, the section for the
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| 10 | upcoming release) for the branch in which it first appears - stable or
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| 11 | development - before the next release. If you back-port it to older branches
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| 12 | please add an entry there too. When a new major release is made, change log
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| 13 | sections for earlier releases are merged in.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Change log sections are split into two groups: major new features (normally
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| 16 | only for dot zero releases) and fixes. In addition, the entries in each group
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| 17 | are ordered as follows:
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| 18 |
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| 19 | VMM-related entries (most important)
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| 20 | GUI-related entries (most visible for users)
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| 21 | Device-related entries
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| 22 | VBoxManage/API/Main-related entries
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| 23 | Host-related entries
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| 24 | Guest-related entries
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| 25 | BIOS/EFI/ACPI-related entries
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Please do further ordering as seems appropriate by importance and visibility for
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| 28 | users, e.g. audio before serial ports and generally Windows before Linux. Please
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| 29 | also try to describe the user impact, not the technical details, and only use
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| 30 | technical terms if no non-technical ones are clear enough.
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| 31 | -->
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| 32 | <chapter>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <!-- HACK ALERT! Seems we must have a single top level element for xi:include to work.
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| 35 | So, we use chapter and xpointer="xpointer(/chapter/)" with xi:include. -->
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <sect1>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <title>Version 6.1.0_BETA1 (2019-09-12)</title>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>
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| 42 | This is a major update. The following major new features were
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| 43 | added:
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| 44 | </para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <itemizedlist>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <listitem>
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| 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
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| 51 | Cloud Infrastructure
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>
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| 57 | Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
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| 58 | Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
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| 59 | virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
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| 60 | export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
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| 61 | "paravirtialized"
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <listitem>
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| 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
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| 68 | on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
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| 69 | Broadwell)
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| 70 | </para>
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| 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <listitem>
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| 74 | <para>
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| 75 | Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
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| 76 | old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
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| 77 | </para>
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| 78 | </listitem>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | </itemizedlist>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <para>
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| 83 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
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| 84 | </para>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <itemizedlist>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <listitem>
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| 89 | <para>
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| 90 | GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
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| 91 | </para>
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| 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <listitem>
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| 95 | <para>
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| 96 | GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
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| 97 | groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
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| 98 | has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
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| 99 | to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
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| 100 | </para>
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| 101 | </listitem>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <listitem>
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| 104 | <para>
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| 105 | GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
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| 106 | for certain VM attributes which we decided as the most
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| 107 | important, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly by clicking corresponding
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| 108 | hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
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| 109 | </para>
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| 110 | </listitem>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <listitem>
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| 113 | <para>
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| 114 | GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
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| 115 | and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
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| 116 | of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
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| 117 | via Virtual Media Manager
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| 118 | </para>
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| 119 | </listitem>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <listitem>
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| 122 | <para>
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| 123 | GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
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| 124 | allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
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| 125 | by using drag and drop
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| 126 | </para>
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| 127 | </listitem>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <listitem>
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| 130 | <para>
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| 131 | GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling keyboard inputs to guests
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| 132 | </para>
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| 133 | </listitem>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <listitem>
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| 136 | <para>
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| 137 | GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
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| 138 | </para>
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| 139 | </listitem>
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| 140 |
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| 141 | <listitem>
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| 142 | <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
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| 143 | device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
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| 144 | is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
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| 145 | </para>
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| 146 | </listitem>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
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| 150 | to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
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| 151 | the need for support on the host
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| 152 | </para>
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| 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <listitem>
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| 156 | <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
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| 157 | when renaming guest files
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| 158 | </para>
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| 159 | </listitem>
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| 160 |
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| 161 | </itemizedlist>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | </sect1>
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| 164 |
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| 165 | </chapter>
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