| 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 | <title>Version 6.1.0_BETA2 (2019-10-xx)</title>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>
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| 41 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
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| 42 | </para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <itemizedlist>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>
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| 48 | Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
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| 49 | </para>
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| 50 | </listitem>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>
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| 54 | GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
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| 55 | </para>
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| 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>
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| 60 | GUI: Media enumeration fixes
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| 61 | </para>
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| 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>
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| 66 | GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <listitem>
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| 71 | <para>
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| 72 | GUI: Details pane fixes
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| 73 | </para>
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| 74 | </listitem>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <listitem>
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| 77 | <para>
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| 78 | GUI: Added multimedia keys to soft keyboard and other improvements
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| 79 | </para>
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| 80 | </listitem>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <listitem>
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| 83 | <para>
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| 84 | GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
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| 85 | </para>
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| 86 | </listitem>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <listitem>
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| 89 | <para>
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| 90 | Cloud: More flexibility in VM export and import to Oracle Cloud
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| 91 | Infrastructure, add free-form tags to cloud images
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| 92 | </para>
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| 93 | </listitem>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <listitem>
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| 96 | <para>
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| 97 | Virtualization core: Improvements for nested hardware-virtualization
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| 98 | on Intel CPUs, Windows works now on outer VM (needs beta VirtualBox)
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| 99 | </para>
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| 100 | </listitem>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <listitem>
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| 103 | <para>
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| 104 | Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
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| 105 | a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
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| 106 | </para>
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| 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <listitem>
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| 110 | <para>
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| 111 | Graphics: Additional texture format supportd on Windows host
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| 112 | </para>
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| 113 | </listitem>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <listitem>
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| 116 | <para>
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| 117 | Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
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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 | API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
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| 124 | </para>
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| 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <listitem>
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| 128 | <para>
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| 129 | VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
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| 130 | multiple source files/directories to a target directory
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| 131 | </para>
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| 132 | </listitem>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <listitem>
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| 135 | <para>
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| 136 | macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
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| 137 | </para>
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| 138 | </listitem>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <listitem>
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| 141 | <para>
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| 142 | EFI: Add NVRAM support, should improve compatibility with OSes
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| 143 | significantly
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| 144 | </para>
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| 145 | </listitem>
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| 146 |
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| 147 | </itemizedlist>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | </sect1>
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| 150 |
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| 151 | <sect1>
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| 152 | <title>Version 6.1.0_BETA1 (2019-09-12)</title>
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| 153 |
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| 154 | <para>
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| 155 | This is a major update. The following major new features were
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| 156 | added:
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| 157 | </para>
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| 158 |
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| 159 | <itemizedlist>
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| 160 |
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| 161 | <listitem>
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| 162 | <para>
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| 163 | Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
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| 164 | Cloud Infrastructure
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| 165 | </para>
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| 166 | </listitem>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <listitem>
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| 169 | <para>
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| 170 | Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
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| 171 | Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
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| 172 | virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
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| 173 | export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
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| 174 | "paravirtialized"
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| 175 | </para>
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| 176 | </listitem>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <listitem>
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| 179 | <para>
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| 180 | Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
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| 181 | on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
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| 182 | Broadwell)
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| 183 | </para>
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| 184 | </listitem>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <listitem>
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| 187 | <para>
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| 188 | Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
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| 189 | old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
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| 190 | </para>
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| 191 | </listitem>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <listitem>
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| 194 | <para>
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| 195 | Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
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| 196 | (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via
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| 197 | VBoxManage (disabled by default).
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| 198 | </para>
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| 199 | </listitem>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | </itemizedlist>
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| 202 |
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| 203 | <para>
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| 204 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
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| 205 | </para>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <itemizedlist>
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| 208 |
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| 209 | <listitem>
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| 210 | <para>
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| 211 | GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
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| 212 | </para>
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| 213 | </listitem>
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| 214 |
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| 215 | <listitem>
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| 216 | <para>
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| 217 | GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
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| 218 | groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
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| 219 | has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
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| 220 | to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
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| 221 | </para>
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| 222 | </listitem>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <listitem>
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| 225 | <para>
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| 226 | GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
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| 227 | for certain VM attributes which we decided as the most
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| 228 | important, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly by clicking corresponding
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| 229 | hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
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| 230 | </para>
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| 231 | </listitem>
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| 232 |
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| 233 | <listitem>
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| 234 | <para>
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| 235 | GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
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| 236 | and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
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| 237 | of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
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| 238 | via Virtual Media Manager
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| 239 | </para>
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| 240 | </listitem>
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| 241 |
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| 242 | <listitem>
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| 243 | <para>
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| 244 | GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
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| 245 | allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
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| 246 | by using drag and drop
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| 247 | </para>
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| 248 | </listitem>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <listitem>
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| 251 | <para>
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| 252 | GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling keyboard inputs to guests
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| 253 | </para>
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| 254 | </listitem>
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| 255 |
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| 256 | <listitem>
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| 257 | <para>
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| 258 | GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
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| 259 | </para>
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| 260 | </listitem>
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| 261 |
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| 262 | <listitem>
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| 263 | <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
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| 264 | device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
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| 265 | is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
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| 266 | </para>
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| 267 | </listitem>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | <listitem>
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| 270 | <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
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| 271 | to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
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| 272 | the need for support on the host
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| 273 | </para>
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| 274 | </listitem>
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| 275 |
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| 276 | <listitem>
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| 277 | <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
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| 278 | when renaming guest files
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| 279 | </para>
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| 280 | </listitem>
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| 281 |
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| 282 | </itemizedlist>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | </sect1>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | </chapter>
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