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| 3 | Copyright (C) 2006-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
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| 21 | SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
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| 22 | -->
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| 23 |
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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.X (date tbd)</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>Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS
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| 83 | Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1
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| 84 | or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur.</para>
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| 85 | </listitem>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <listitem>
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| 88 | <para>macOS hosts: Added workaround for a bug in the Hypervisor framework on Catalina causing
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| 89 | VERR_NEM_MAP_PAGES_FAILED errors when starting a VM. The workaround can cause
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| 90 | severe performance degradation depending on the guest and it is advised to upgrade to BigSur
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| 91 | or later as Apple is unlikely to fix the issue (bug #21128).</para>
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| 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <listitem>
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| 95 | <para>macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking, this is considered a bit
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| 96 | experimental still.</para>
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| 97 | </listitem>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <listitem>
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| 100 | <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.1</para>
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| 101 | </listitem>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <listitem>
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| 104 | <para>GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved.</para>
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| 105 | </listitem>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | </itemizedlist>
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| 108 | </sect1>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <sect1>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <title>Version 7.0.0 (2022-10-10)</title>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <para>This is a major update. The following major new features were added:</para>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <itemizedlist>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <listitem>
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| 119 | <para>Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs
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| 120 | and saved states (CLI only for now)</para>
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| 121 | </listitem>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | <listitem>
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| 124 | <para>OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled
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| 125 | as local VMs</para>
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| 126 | </listitem>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <listitem>
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| 129 | <para>OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as
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| 130 | it is done for Host-only and NAT networks</para>
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| 131 | </listitem>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <listitem>
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| 134 | <para>GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance statistics
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| 135 | (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests</para>
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| 136 | </listitem>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <listitem>
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| 139 | <para>GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended
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| 140 | guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow</para>
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| 141 | </listitem>
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| 142 |
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| 143 | <listitem>
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| 144 | <para>GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated
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| 145 | and searched</para>
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| 146 | </listitem>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error
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| 150 | reporting around the GUI</para>
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| 151 | </listitem>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <listitem>
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| 154 | <para>GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS
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| 155 | use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.</para>
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| 156 | </listitem>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <listitem>
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| 159 | <para>GUI: Large icon update.</para>
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| 160 | </listitem>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <listitem>
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| 163 | <para>Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.
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| 164 | Opus is no longer being used.</para>
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| 165 | </listitem>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <listitem>
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| 168 | <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
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| 169 | without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
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| 170 | option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
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| 171 | </listitem>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | <listitem>
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| 174 | <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
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| 175 | of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
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| 176 | </listitem>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <listitem>
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| 179 | <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
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| 180 | guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
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| 181 | </listitem>
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| 182 |
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| 183 | <listitem>
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| 184 | <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
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| 185 | make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
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| 186 | </listitem>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <listitem>
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| 189 | <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
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| 190 | in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
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| 191 | in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
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| 192 | </listitem>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <listitem>
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| 195 | <para>macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on
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| 196 | the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now. At the moment
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| 197 | the implementation lacks "Internal Networking" functionality. This will be
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| 198 | provided at a later date.</para>
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| 199 | </listitem>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <listitem>
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| 202 | <para>macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with
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| 203 | an Apple silicon CPU. This is unsupported work in progress, and is known
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| 204 | to have very modest performance.</para>
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| 205 | </listitem>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <listitem>
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| 208 | <para>Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality,
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| 209 | added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments</para>
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| 210 | </listitem>
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| 211 |
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| 212 | <listitem>
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| 213 | <para>Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK
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| 214 | on non Windows hosts)</para>
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| 215 | </listitem>
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| 216 |
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| 217 | <listitem>
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| 218 | <para>Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)</para>
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| 219 | </listitem>
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| 220 |
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| 221 | <listitem>
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| 222 | <para>Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.0 devices</para>
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| 223 | </listitem>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <listitem>
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| 226 | <para>Devices: The EHCI and XHCI USB controller devices are now part of the
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| 227 | open source base package</para>
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| 228 | </listitem>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <listitem>
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| 231 | <para>EFI: Added support for Secure Boot</para>
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| 232 | </listitem>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <listitem>
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| 235 | <para>Debugging: Added experimental support for guest debugging through
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| 236 | GDB and highly experimental support for guest debugging through KD/WinDbg</para>
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| 237 | </listitem>
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| 238 |
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| 239 | </itemizedlist>
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| 240 |
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| 241 | <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
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| 242 |
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| 243 | <itemizedlist>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <listitem>
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| 246 | <para>OCI: Cloud networking functionality is enhanced for local VMs, now local VMs could
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| 247 | be connected to cloud networking</para>
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| 248 | </listitem>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <listitem>
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| 251 | <para>GUI: Improved behavior of the virtual machine list and various VM related tools in case
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| 252 | multiple items are selected</para>
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| 253 | </listitem>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | <listitem>
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| 256 | <para>GUI: On available platforms, added a new option to disable the host's screensaver</para>
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| 257 | </listitem>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <listitem>
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| 260 | <para>GUI: Reworked global preferences, machine settings and the wizards to improve stability
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| 261 | and usability</para>
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| 262 | </listitem>
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| 263 |
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| 264 | <listitem>
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| 265 | <para>GUI: Improving mouse handling in multi-monitor case on X11 platform</para>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <listitem>
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| 269 | <para>GUI: Medium enumeration engine was reworked to improve permormance</para>
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| 270 | </listitem>
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| 271 |
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| 272 | <listitem>
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| 273 | <para>GUI: NAT Network stuff was moved from global preferences to global Network Manager tool</para>
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| 274 | </listitem>
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| 275 |
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| 276 | <listitem>
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| 277 | <para>GUI: Extension Pack Manager was moved from global preferences to global tools</para>
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| 278 | </listitem>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | <listitem>
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| 281 | <para>GUI: Improved overall accessibility</para>
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| 282 | </listitem>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | <listitem>
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| 285 | <para>GUI: Migrating to recent Qt versions.</para>
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| 286 | </listitem>
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| 287 |
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| 288 | </itemizedlist>
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| 289 | </sect1>
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| 290 |
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| 291 | </chapter>
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