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71 <sect1>
72
73 <title>Version 7.0.X (date tbd)</title>
74
75 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
76 added:</para>
77
78 <itemizedlist>
79
80 <listitem>
81 <para>VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state (bug #21172)</para>
82 </listitem>
83
84 <listitem>
85 <para>Mouse Integration: Provided guest with extended host mouse state</para>
86 </listitem>
87
88 <listitem>
89 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building
90 UEK7 kernel on Oracle Linux 8</para>
91 </listitem>
92
93 <listitem>
94 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel</para>
95 </listitem>
96
97 </itemizedlist>
98 </sect1>
99
100 <sect1>
101
102 <title>Version 7.0.4 (2022-11-18)</title>
103
104 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
105 added:</para>
106
107 <itemizedlist>
108
109 <listitem>
110 <para>VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)</para>
111 </listitem>
112
113 <listitem>
114 <para>VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)</para>
115 </listitem>
116
117 <listitem>
118 <para>VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)</para>
119 </listitem>
120
121 <listitem>
122 <para>VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)</para>
123 </listitem>
124
125 <listitem>
126 <para>GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager</para>
127 </listitem>
128
129 <listitem>
130 <para>GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager</para>
131 </listitem>
132
133 <listitem>
134 <para>GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font</para>
135 </listitem>
136
137 <listitem>
138 <para>GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard
139 is cancelled (bug #21244)</para>
140 </listitem>
141
142 <listitem>
143 <para>GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.</para>
144 </listitem>
145
146 <listitem>
147 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)</para>
148 </listitem>
149
150 <listitem>
151 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)</para>
152 </listitem>
153
154 <listitem>
155 <para>virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3
156 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)</para>
157 </listitem>
158
159 <listitem>
160 <para>Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)</para>
161 </listitem>
162
163 <listitem>
164 <para>VBoxManage: Fixed regression when 'createmedium disk --variant RawDisk' command resulted
165 in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)</para>
166 </listitem>
167
168 <listitem>
169 <para>Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor
170 VM configuration (bug #21137)</para>
171 </listitem>
172
173 <listitem>
174 <para>Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux
175 Guest Additions installation</para>
176 </listitem>
177
178 <listitem>
179 <para>Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)</para>
180 </listitem>
181
182 <listitem>
183 <para>3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)</para>
184 </listitem>
185
186 <listitem>
187 <para>Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts</para>
188 </listitem>
189
190 <listitem>
191 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for
192 RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272, #21258)</para>
193 </listitem>
194
195 <listitem>
196 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels</para>
197 </listitem>
198
199 <listitem>
200 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on
201 system shutdown</para>
202 </listitem>
203
204 </itemizedlist>
205 </sect1>
206
207 <sect1>
208
209 <title>Version 7.0.2 (2022-10-20)</title>
210
211 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
212 added:</para>
213
214 <itemizedlist>
215
216 <listitem>
217 <para>Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS
218 Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1
219 or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur</para>
220 </listitem>
221
222 <listitem>
223 <para>Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC could become unresponsive if Extension Pack
224 was not installed (bug #21167)</para>
225 </listitem>
226
227 <listitem>
228 <para>macOS hosts: Added workaround for a bug in the Hypervisor framework on Catalina causing
229 VERR_NEM_MAP_PAGES_FAILED errors when starting a VM. (bug #21128)</para>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking, this is considered a bit
234 experimental still</para>
235 </listitem>
236
237 <listitem>
238 <para>macOS hosts: Fixed VM crash when the guest tries to access a microphone or webcam</para>
239 </listitem>
240
241 <listitem>
242 <para>Windows host: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when only 4Kb of host
243 clipboard buffer was accessible to guest (bug #21149)</para>
244 </listitem>
245
246 <listitem>
247 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.1</para>
248 </listitem>
249
250 <listitem>
251 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient seamless service
252 caused a crash of some X11 applications (bug #21132)</para>
253 </listitem>
254
255 <listitem>
256 <para>Windows hosts: GUI: Fixed missing Qt libraries for vista style and sql driver (bug #21155)</para>
257 </listitem>
258
259 <listitem>
260 <para>GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved (bug #21156)</para>
261 </listitem>
262
263 </itemizedlist>
264 </sect1>
265
266 <sect1>
267
268 <title>Version 7.0.0 (2022-10-10)</title>
269
270 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features were added:</para>
271
272 <itemizedlist>
273
274 <listitem>
275 <para>Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs
276 and saved states (CLI only for now)</para>
277 </listitem>
278
279 <listitem>
280 <para>OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled
281 as local VMs</para>
282 </listitem>
283
284 <listitem>
285 <para>OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as
286 it is done for Host-only and NAT networks</para>
287 </listitem>
288
289 <listitem>
290 <para>GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance statistics
291 (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests</para>
292 </listitem>
293
294 <listitem>
295 <para>GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended
296 guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow</para>
297 </listitem>
298
299 <listitem>
300 <para>GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated
301 and searched</para>
302 </listitem>
303
304 <listitem>
305 <para>GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error
306 reporting around the GUI</para>
307 </listitem>
308
309 <listitem>
310 <para>GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS
311 use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.</para>
312 </listitem>
313
314 <listitem>
315 <para>GUI: Large icon update.</para>
316 </listitem>
317
318 <listitem>
319 <para>Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.
320 Opus is no longer being used.</para>
321 </listitem>
322
323 <listitem>
324 <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
325 without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
326 option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
327 </listitem>
328
329 <listitem>
330 <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
331 of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
332 </listitem>
333
334 <listitem>
335 <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
336 guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
337 </listitem>
338
339 <listitem>
340 <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
341 make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
342 </listitem>
343
344 <listitem>
345 <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
346 in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
347 in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
348 </listitem>
349
350 <listitem>
351 <para>macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on
352 the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now. At the moment
353 the implementation lacks "Internal Networking" functionality. This will be
354 provided at a later date.</para>
355 </listitem>
356
357 <listitem>
358 <para>macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with
359 an Apple silicon CPU. This is unsupported work in progress, and is known
360 to have very modest performance.</para>
361 </listitem>
362
363 <listitem>
364 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality,
365 added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments</para>
366 </listitem>
367
368 <listitem>
369 <para>Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK
370 on non Windows hosts)</para>
371 </listitem>
372
373 <listitem>
374 <para>Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)</para>
375 </listitem>
376
377 <listitem>
378 <para>Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.0 devices</para>
379 </listitem>
380
381 <listitem>
382 <para>Devices: The EHCI and XHCI USB controller devices are now part of the
383 open source base package</para>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>EFI: Added support for Secure Boot</para>
388 </listitem>
389
390 <listitem>
391 <para>Debugging: Added experimental support for guest debugging through
392 GDB and highly experimental support for guest debugging through KD/WinDbg</para>
393 </listitem>
394
395 </itemizedlist>
396
397 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
398
399 <itemizedlist>
400
401 <listitem>
402 <para>OCI: Cloud networking functionality is enhanced for local VMs, now local VMs could
403 be connected to cloud networking</para>
404 </listitem>
405
406 <listitem>
407 <para>GUI: Improved behavior of the virtual machine list and various VM related tools in case
408 multiple items are selected</para>
409 </listitem>
410
411 <listitem>
412 <para>GUI: On available platforms, added a new option to disable the host's screensaver</para>
413 </listitem>
414
415 <listitem>
416 <para>GUI: Reworked global preferences, machine settings and the wizards to improve stability
417 and usability</para>
418 </listitem>
419
420 <listitem>
421 <para>GUI: Improving mouse handling in multi-monitor case on X11 platform</para>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>GUI: Medium enumeration engine was reworked to improve permormance</para>
426 </listitem>
427
428 <listitem>
429 <para>GUI: NAT Network stuff was moved from global preferences to global Network Manager tool</para>
430 </listitem>
431
432 <listitem>
433 <para>GUI: Extension Pack Manager was moved from global preferences to global tools</para>
434 </listitem>
435
436 <listitem>
437 <para>GUI: Improved overall accessibility</para>
438 </listitem>
439
440 <listitem>
441 <para>GUI: Migrating to recent Qt versions.</para>
442 </listitem>
443
444 </itemizedlist>
445 </sect1>
446
447</chapter>
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