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| 24 | <!--
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| 25 | Release change log structure
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Each release has a matching log of changes which were made for that and
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| 28 | earlier releases. Earlier releases means anything with a lower number (e.g.
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| 29 | 5.0.18 is lower than 5.1.2) which was released before this one. The log is
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| 30 | kept in the file doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml. Anything worth mentioning,
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| 31 | particularly new features and fixed bugs, with a trac bug number if possible,
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| 32 | should be added to the top of the change log (that is, the section for the
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| 33 | upcoming release) for the branch in which it first appears - stable or
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| 34 | development - before the next release. If you back-port it to older branches
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| 35 | please add an entry there too. When a new major release is made, change log
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| 36 | sections for earlier releases are merged in.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | Change log sections are split into two groups: major new features (normally
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| 39 | only for dot zero releases) and fixes. In addition, the entries in each group
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| 40 | are ordered as follows:
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| 41 |
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| 42 | VMM-related entries (most important)
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| 43 | GUI-related entries (most visible for users)
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| 44 | Device-related entries
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| 45 | VBoxManage/API/Main-related entries
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| 46 | Host-related entries
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| 47 | Guest-related entries
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| 48 | BIOS/EFI/ACPI-related entries
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| 49 |
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| 50 | Please do further ordering as seems appropriate by importance and visibility for
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| 51 | users, e.g. audio before serial ports and generally Windows before Linux. Please
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| 52 | also try to describe the user impact, not the technical details, and only use
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| 53 | technical terms if no non-technical ones are clear enough.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | Rules for adding a changelog entry to make them look more uniform:
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| 56 |
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| 57 | 1. Begin the entry with an UPPERCASE letter, e.g. "Foo: Fixed" vs. "Foo: fixed"
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| 58 | 2. Use the past form of something, e.g. "Fixed ..." vs. "Fix ..."
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| 59 | 3. No dot (.) after the entry, e.g. "<para>Foo: Bar</para>" vs. "<para>Foo: Bar.</para>"
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| 60 |
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| 61 | Full example:
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <listitem>
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| 64 | <para>Foo: Fixed something really important</para>
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| 65 | </listitem>
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| 66 | -->
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| 67 | <chapter>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <!-- HACK ALERT! Seems we must have a single top level element for xi:include to work.
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| 70 | So, we use chapter and xpointer="xpointer(/chapter/)" with xi:include. -->
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <sect1>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <title>Version 7.0.0_XXX (2022-XX-XX)</title>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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| 77 | added:</para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <itemizedlist>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <listitem>
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| 82 | <para>Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.
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| 83 | Opus is no longer being used.</para>
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| 84 | </listitem>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | </itemizedlist>
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| 87 | </sect1>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <sect1>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <title>Version 7.0.0_ALPHA2 (2022-08-05)</title>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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| 94 | added:</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <itemizedlist>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <listitem>
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| 99 | <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
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| 100 | without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
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| 101 | option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
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| 102 | </listitem>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <listitem>
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| 105 | <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
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| 106 | of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
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| 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <listitem>
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| 110 | <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
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| 111 | guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
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| 112 | </listitem>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <listitem>
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| 115 | <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
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| 116 | make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
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| 117 | </listitem>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <listitem>
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| 120 | <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
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| 121 | in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
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| 122 | in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
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| 123 | </listitem>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | </itemizedlist>
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| 126 | </sect1>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <sect1>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <title>Version 7.0.0_ALPHA1 (2022-05-18)</title>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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| 133 | added:</para>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <itemizedlist>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <listitem>
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| 138 | <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
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| 139 | without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
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| 140 | option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
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| 141 | </listitem>
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| 142 |
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| 143 | <listitem>
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| 144 | <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
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| 145 | of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
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| 146 | </listitem>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
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| 150 | guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
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| 151 | </listitem>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <listitem>
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| 154 | <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
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| 155 | make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
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| 156 | </listitem>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <listitem>
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| 159 | <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
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| 160 | in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
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| 161 | in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
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| 162 | </listitem>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | </itemizedlist>
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| 165 | </sect1>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <sect1>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | <title>Version 6.1.4 (2020-02-19)</title>
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| 170 |
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| 171 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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| 172 | added:</para>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <itemizedlist>
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| 175 | <listitem>
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| 176 | <para>Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction
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| 177 | causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression;
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| 178 | bug #19171)</para>
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| 179 | </listitem>
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| 180 |
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| 181 | <listitem>
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| 182 | <para>Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot
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| 183 | after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)</para>
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| 184 | </listitem>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <listitem>
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| 187 | <para>GUI: recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt
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| 188 | translation tags</para>
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| 189 | </listitem>
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| 190 |
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| 191 | <listitem>
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| 192 | <para>USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI</para>
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| 193 | </listitem>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | <listitem>
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| 196 | <para>Serial: Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data
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| 197 | when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)</para>
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| 198 | </listitem>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <listitem>
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| 201 | <para>Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on
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| 202 | Windows host</para>
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| 203 | </listitem>
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <listitem>
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| 206 | <para>VBoxManage: Restore old --clipboard option for modifyvm
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| 207 | command</para>
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| 208 | </listitem>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <listitem>
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| 211 | <para>macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed
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| 212 | entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also
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| 213 | required moving VirtualBoxVM executable</para>
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| 214 | </listitem>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <listitem>
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| 217 | <para>macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4</para>
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| 218 | </listitem>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <listitem>
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| 221 | <para>Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer</para>
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| 222 | </listitem>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <listitem>
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| 225 | <para>Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX
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| 226 | append semantic (bug #19003)</para>
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| 227 | </listitem>
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| 228 |
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| 229 | <listitem>
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| 230 | <para>Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V,
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| 231 | at the expense of performance</para>
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| 232 | </listitem>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <listitem>
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| 235 | <para>Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)</para>
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| 236 | </listitem>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | <listitem>
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| 239 | <para>Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of
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| 240 | images</para>
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| 241 | </listitem>
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| 242 |
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| 243 | <listitem>
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| 244 | <para>BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready</para>
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| 245 | </listitem>
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| 246 |
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| 247 | <listitem>
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| 248 | <para>BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)</para>
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| 249 | </listitem>
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| 250 |
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| 251 | <listitem>
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| 252 | <para>VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers</para>
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| 253 | </listitem>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | </itemizedlist>
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| 256 | </sect1>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | <sect1>
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| 259 | <title>Version 6.1.2 (2020-01-14)</title>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | <para>
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| 262 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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| 263 | added:
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| 264 | </para>
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| 265 |
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| 266 | <itemizedlist>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <listitem>
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| 269 | <para>Virtualization core: Fixed performance issue observed with
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| 270 | Windows XP guests on AMD hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #19152)</para>
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| 271 | </listitem>
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| 272 |
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| 273 | <listitem>
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| 274 | <para>Virtualization core: Consistent IBRS/IBPB CPUID feature
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| 275 | reporting, avoids crash of NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer (bug
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| 276 | #19146)</para>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 |
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| 279 | <listitem>
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| 280 | <para>GUI: Fixed updating of runtime info</para>
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| 281 | </listitem>
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| 282 |
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| 283 | <listitem>
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| 284 | <para>GUI: In Display settings, do not show "2D video acceleration"
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| 285 | checkbox if it is meaningless for the selected graphics
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| 286 | adapter</para>
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| 287 | </listitem>
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| 288 |
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| 289 | <listitem>
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| 290 | <para>Audio: Fixed audio input handling when VRDE is enabled</para>
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| 291 | </listitem>
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| 292 |
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| 293 | <listitem>
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| 294 | <para>Audio: Fixed crash in the HDA emulation when using multi-speaker
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| 295 | configurations</para>
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| 296 | </listitem>
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| 297 |
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| 298 | <listitem>
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| 299 | <para>Storage: Fixed use of encrypted disks with snapshots involved
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| 300 | (6.1.0 regression; bug #19160)</para>
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| 301 | </listitem>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | <listitem>
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| 304 | <para>Storage: Improve performance of virtio-scsi</para>
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| 305 | </listitem>
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| 306 |
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| 307 | <listitem>
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| 308 | <para>Storage: Read-only support for compressed clusters in QCOW2
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| 309 | images</para>
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| 310 | </listitem>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <listitem>
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| 313 | <para>Windows installer: Include unintentionally dropped vbox-img.exe
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| 314 | utility again</para>
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| 315 | </listitem>
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| 316 |
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| 317 | <listitem>
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| 318 | <para>Windows host: When installing or removing an extension pack,
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| 319 | retry the sometimes failing directory renaming (usually caused by
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| 320 | anti-virus software accessing the directory)</para>
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| 321 | </listitem>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | <listitem>
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| 324 | <para>Linux host: Support Linux 5.5 (guest additions not yet)</para>
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| 325 | </listitem>
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| 326 |
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| 327 | <listitem>
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| 328 | <para>Windows guest: Accelerate 2D video decoding (scaling and color
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| 329 | space conversion) if the VM is configured to use VBoxSVGA with 3D
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| 330 | enabled</para>
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| 331 | </listitem>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <listitem>
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| 334 | <para>Windows guest: Fix guest additions installer to upgrade the mouse
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| 335 | filter driver reliably</para>
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| 336 | </listitem>
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| 337 |
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| 338 | <listitem>
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| 339 | <para>Windows guest: When uninstalling older Guest Additions with old
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| 340 | 3D support enabled try restoring original Direct3D files</para>
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| 341 | </listitem>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | <listitem>
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| 344 | <para>Linux guest: Improve resize and multi-monitor handling for VMs
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| 345 | using VMSVGA (known remaining issue: do not disable a monitor
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| 346 | "in the middle", causes confusion)</para>
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| 347 | </listitem>
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| 348 |
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| 349 | </itemizedlist>
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| 350 | </sect1>
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| 351 |
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| 352 | <sect1>
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| 353 | <title>Version 6.1.0 (2019-12-10)</title>
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| 354 |
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| 355 | <para>
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| 356 | This is a major update. The following major new features were
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| 357 | added:
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| 358 | </para>
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| 359 |
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| 360 | <itemizedlist>
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| 361 |
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| 362 | <listitem>
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| 363 | <para>
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| 364 | Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
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| 365 | Cloud Infrastructure
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| 366 | </para>
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| 367 | </listitem>
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| 368 |
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| 369 | <listitem>
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| 370 | <para>
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| 371 | Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
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| 372 | Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
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| 373 | virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
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| 374 | export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
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| 375 | "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud
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| 376 | images
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| 377 | </para>
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| 378 | </listitem>
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| 379 |
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| 380 | <listitem>
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| 381 | <para>
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| 382 | Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
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| 383 | on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
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| 384 | Broadwell), so far tested only with guest running VirtualBox
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| 385 | </para>
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| 386 | </listitem>
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| 387 |
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| 388 | <listitem>
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| 389 | <para>
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| 390 | Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
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| 391 | old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
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| 392 | </para>
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| 393 | </listitem>
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| 394 |
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| 395 | </itemizedlist>
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| 396 |
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| 397 | <para>
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| 398 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
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| 399 | </para>
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| 400 |
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| 401 | <itemizedlist>
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| 402 |
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| 403 | <listitem>
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| 404 | <para>
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| 405 | Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
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| 406 | a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
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| 407 | </para>
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| 408 | </listitem>
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| 409 |
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| 410 | <listitem>
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| 411 | <para>
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| 412 | Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
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| 413 | </para>
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| 414 | </listitem>
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| 415 |
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| 416 | <listitem>
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| 417 | <para>
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| 418 | Appliance and Cloud Import: Add field for defining firmware type (not
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| 419 | part of OVF spec and thus manual in the Appliance case, for OCI it is
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| 420 | automatically taken from the instance information)
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| 421 | </para>
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| 422 | </listitem>
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| 423 |
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| 424 | <listitem>
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| 425 | <para>
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| 426 | GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
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| 427 | </para>
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| 428 | </listitem>
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| 429 |
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| 430 | <listitem>
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| 431 | <para>
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| 432 | GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
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| 433 | groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
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| 434 | has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
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| 435 | to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
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| 436 | </para>
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| 437 | </listitem>
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| 438 |
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| 439 | <listitem>
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| 440 | <para>
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| 441 | GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
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| 442 | for selected VM attributes, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly byi
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| 443 | clicking corresponding hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
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| 444 | </para>
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| 445 | </listitem>
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| 446 |
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| 447 | <listitem>
|
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| 448 | <para>
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| 449 | GUI: Details pane provides more complete information
|
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| 450 | </para>
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| 451 | </listitem>
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| 452 |
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| 453 | <listitem>
|
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| 454 | <para>
|
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| 455 | GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
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| 456 | and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
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| 457 | of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
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| 458 | via Virtual Media Manager
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| 459 | </para>
|
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| 460 | </listitem>
|
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| 461 |
|
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| 462 | <listitem>
|
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| 463 | <para>
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| 464 | GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images
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| 465 | and allowing to select using the file picker)
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| 466 | </para>
|
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| 467 | </listitem>
|
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| 468 |
|
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| 469 | <listitem>
|
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| 470 | <para>
|
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| 471 | GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
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| 472 | allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
|
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| 473 | by using drag and drop
|
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| 474 | </para>
|
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| 475 | </listitem>
|
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| 476 |
|
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| 477 | <listitem>
|
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| 478 | <para>
|
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| 479 | GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
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| 480 | </para>
|
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| 481 | </listitem>
|
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| 482 |
|
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| 483 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 484 | <para>
|
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| 485 | GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling arbitrary keyboard input to guests,
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| 486 | including multimedia keys
|
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| 487 | </para>
|
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| 488 | </listitem>
|
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| 489 |
|
|---|
| 490 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 491 | <para>
|
|---|
| 492 | GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility
|
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| 493 | functionality was enabled
|
|---|
| 494 | </para>
|
|---|
| 495 | </listitem>
|
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| 496 |
|
|---|
| 497 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 498 | <para>
|
|---|
| 499 | GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator
|
|---|
| 500 | </para>
|
|---|
| 501 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 502 |
|
|---|
| 503 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 504 | <para>
|
|---|
| 505 | GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
|
|---|
| 506 | </para>
|
|---|
| 507 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 508 |
|
|---|
| 509 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 510 | <para>
|
|---|
| 511 | GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling
|
|---|
| 512 | </para>
|
|---|
| 513 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 514 |
|
|---|
| 515 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 516 | <para>
|
|---|
| 517 | GUI: Some issues related to mouse integration cursor scaling were
|
|---|
| 518 | addressed (bug #14366), more to go
|
|---|
| 519 | </para>
|
|---|
| 520 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 521 |
|
|---|
| 522 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 523 | <para>
|
|---|
| 524 | GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
|
|---|
| 525 | </para>
|
|---|
| 526 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 527 |
|
|---|
| 528 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 529 | <para>
|
|---|
| 530 | GUI: Added the missing restriction options for disabling new
|
|---|
| 531 | functionality such as the VISO creator
|
|---|
| 532 | </para>
|
|---|
| 533 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 534 |
|
|---|
| 535 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 536 | <para>
|
|---|
| 537 | GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
|
|---|
| 538 | </para>
|
|---|
| 539 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 540 |
|
|---|
| 541 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 542 | <para>
|
|---|
| 543 | Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0)
|
|---|
| 544 | </para>
|
|---|
| 545 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 546 |
|
|---|
| 547 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 548 | <para>
|
|---|
| 549 | Graphics: Additional texture format support on Windows host
|
|---|
| 550 | </para>
|
|---|
| 551 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 552 |
|
|---|
| 553 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 554 | <para>
|
|---|
| 555 | Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
|
|---|
| 556 | </para>
|
|---|
| 557 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 558 |
|
|---|
| 559 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 560 | <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
|
|---|
| 561 | device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
|
|---|
| 562 | is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
|
|---|
| 563 | </para>
|
|---|
| 564 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 565 |
|
|---|
| 566 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 567 | <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
|
|---|
| 568 | to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
|
|---|
| 569 | the need for support on the host
|
|---|
| 570 | </para>
|
|---|
| 571 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 572 |
|
|---|
| 573 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 574 | <para>vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host
|
|---|
| 575 | </para>
|
|---|
| 576 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 577 |
|
|---|
| 578 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 579 | <para>
|
|---|
| 580 | Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and
|
|---|
| 581 | optical drives (including boot support in BIOS)
|
|---|
| 582 | </para>
|
|---|
| 583 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 584 |
|
|---|
| 585 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 586 | <para>
|
|---|
| 587 | Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive crash
|
|---|
| 588 | </para>
|
|---|
| 589 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 590 |
|
|---|
| 591 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 592 | <para>
|
|---|
| 593 | USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation
|
|---|
| 594 | </para>
|
|---|
| 595 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 596 |
|
|---|
| 597 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 598 | <para>
|
|---|
| 599 | USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port
|
|---|
| 600 | in a system
|
|---|
| 601 | </para>
|
|---|
| 602 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 603 |
|
|---|
| 604 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 605 | <para>
|
|---|
| 606 | NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options
|
|---|
| 607 | </para>
|
|---|
| 608 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 609 |
|
|---|
| 610 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 611 | <para>
|
|---|
| 612 | NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted
|
|---|
| 613 | incoming connections (port forwarding)
|
|---|
| 614 | </para>
|
|---|
| 615 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 616 |
|
|---|
| 617 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 618 | <para>
|
|---|
| 619 | PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only
|
|---|
| 620 | </para>
|
|---|
| 621 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 622 |
|
|---|
| 623 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 624 | <para>
|
|---|
| 625 | Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is
|
|---|
| 626 | in saved state
|
|---|
| 627 | </para>
|
|---|
| 628 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 629 |
|
|---|
| 630 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 631 | <para>
|
|---|
| 632 | ACPI: Report NVMe controller
|
|---|
| 633 | </para>
|
|---|
| 634 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 635 |
|
|---|
| 636 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 637 | <para>
|
|---|
| 638 | VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility
|
|---|
| 639 | </para>
|
|---|
| 640 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 641 |
|
|---|
| 642 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 643 | <para>
|
|---|
| 644 | VBoxSVGA/VMSVGA: Support YUV2 and related texture formats with hosts
|
|---|
| 645 | using OpenGL (macOS and Linux), which accelerates video playback
|
|---|
| 646 | when 3D is enabled by delegating the color space conversion to the
|
|---|
| 647 | host GPU
|
|---|
| 648 | </para>
|
|---|
| 649 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 650 |
|
|---|
| 651 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 652 | <para>
|
|---|
| 653 | VBoxSVGA/VMSVGA: Several drawing fixes for the 3D case
|
|---|
| 654 | </para>
|
|---|
| 655 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 656 |
|
|---|
| 657 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 658 | <para>
|
|---|
| 659 | VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures
|
|---|
| 660 | </para>
|
|---|
| 661 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 662 |
|
|---|
| 663 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 664 | <para>
|
|---|
| 665 | VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting
|
|---|
| 666 | a cloud instance
|
|---|
| 667 | </para>
|
|---|
| 668 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 669 |
|
|---|
| 670 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 671 | <para>
|
|---|
| 672 | VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
|
|---|
| 673 | multiple source files/directories to a target directory
|
|---|
| 674 | </para>
|
|---|
| 675 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 676 |
|
|---|
| 677 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 678 | <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
|
|---|
| 679 | when renaming guest files
|
|---|
| 680 | </para>
|
|---|
| 681 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 682 |
|
|---|
| 683 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 684 | <para>VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW
|
|---|
| 685 | virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information</para>
|
|---|
| 686 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 687 |
|
|---|
| 688 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 689 | <para>
|
|---|
| 690 | API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
|
|---|
| 691 | </para>
|
|---|
| 692 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 693 |
|
|---|
| 694 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 695 | <para>
|
|---|
| 696 | Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
|
|---|
| 697 | for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default)
|
|---|
| 698 | </para>
|
|---|
| 699 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 700 |
|
|---|
| 701 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 702 | <para>
|
|---|
| 703 | SMBIOS: Store system UUID in little endian format which is the
|
|---|
| 704 | default for new VMs, while existing VMs stick to the old VirtualBox
|
|---|
| 705 | behavior of storing them in big endian format for backwards
|
|---|
| 706 | compatibility to avoid breaking the activation status of Windows VMs
|
|---|
| 707 | </para>
|
|---|
| 708 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 709 |
|
|---|
| 710 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 711 | <para>VBoxSDL frontend: Fixed running on Windows hosts</para>
|
|---|
| 712 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 713 |
|
|---|
| 714 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 715 | <para>
|
|---|
| 716 | macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
|
|---|
| 717 | </para>
|
|---|
| 718 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 719 |
|
|---|
| 720 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 721 | <para>
|
|---|
| 722 | Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information
|
|---|
| 723 | </para>
|
|---|
| 724 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 725 |
|
|---|
| 726 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 727 | <para>
|
|---|
| 728 | Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete
|
|---|
| 729 | (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough
|
|---|
| 730 | </para>
|
|---|
| 731 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 732 |
|
|---|
| 733 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 734 | <para>Linux host and guest: Support Linux 5.4 (bug #18945)</para>
|
|---|
| 735 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 736 |
|
|---|
| 737 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 738 | <para>Linux host and guest: Force disabling of kernel module signing
|
|---|
| 739 | during build (user can do it afterwards)</para>
|
|---|
| 740 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 741 |
|
|---|
| 742 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 743 | <para>
|
|---|
| 744 | Windows host: When possible, distinguish USB devices by port number; helps
|
|---|
| 745 | with accurate capturing of devices when multiple otherwise identical devices
|
|---|
| 746 | are connected
|
|---|
| 747 | </para>
|
|---|
| 748 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 749 |
|
|---|
| 750 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 751 | <para>
|
|---|
| 752 | Windows Guest Additions: Many fixes for drawing problems in the
|
|---|
| 753 | driver for VBoxSVGA
|
|---|
| 754 | </para>
|
|---|
| 755 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 756 |
|
|---|
| 757 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 758 | <para>
|
|---|
| 759 | Windows Guest Additions: Fixes for legacy VBoxVGA adapter, restore
|
|---|
| 760 | previously working cases
|
|---|
| 761 | </para>
|
|---|
| 762 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 763 |
|
|---|
| 764 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 765 | <para>
|
|---|
| 766 | Windows Guest Additions: Restore VHWA functionality for VBoxSVGA
|
|---|
| 767 | </para>
|
|---|
| 768 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 769 |
|
|---|
| 770 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 771 | <para>
|
|---|
| 772 | Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver
|
|---|
| 773 | </para>
|
|---|
| 774 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 775 |
|
|---|
| 776 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 777 | <para>
|
|---|
| 778 | Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few
|
|---|
| 779 | new manual pages (more to come later)
|
|---|
| 780 | </para>
|
|---|
| 781 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 782 |
|
|---|
| 783 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 784 | <para>
|
|---|
| 785 | EFI: Switch to newer firmware code base and add NVRAM support,
|
|---|
| 786 | should improve compatibility with OSes significantly
|
|---|
| 787 | </para>
|
|---|
| 788 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 789 |
|
|---|
| 790 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 791 | <para>
|
|---|
| 792 | EFI: Added support for booting from APFS
|
|---|
| 793 | </para>
|
|---|
| 794 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 795 |
|
|---|
| 796 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 797 | <para>
|
|---|
| 798 | EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths
|
|---|
| 799 | created by OS X
|
|---|
| 800 | </para>
|
|---|
| 801 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 802 |
|
|---|
| 803 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 804 | <para>
|
|---|
| 805 | EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again
|
|---|
| 806 | </para>
|
|---|
| 807 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 808 |
|
|---|
| 809 | </itemizedlist>
|
|---|
| 810 |
|
|---|
| 811 | </sect1>
|
|---|
| 812 |
|
|---|
| 813 | </chapter>
|
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