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74 <sect1>
75
76 <title>Version 7.0.X (date tbd)</title>
77
78 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
79 added:</para>
80
81 <itemizedlist>
82
83 <listitem>
84 <para>VMM: Fixed guru running the FreeBSD loader on older Intel CPUs
85 without unrestricted guest support (bug #21332)</para>
86 </listitem>
87
88 <listitem>
89 <para>GUI: Fixed virtual machines grouping when VM was created or
90 modified in command line (bugs #11500, #20933)</para>
91 </listitem>
92
93 <listitem>
94 <para>GUI: Introduced generic changes in settings dialogs</para>
95 </listitem>
96
97 <listitem>
98 <para>VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state
99 (bug #21172)</para>
100 </listitem>
101
102 <listitem>
103 <para>Storage: Added support for increasing the size of the following
104 VMDK image variants: monolithicFlat, monolithicSparse, twoGbMaxExtentSparse,
105 twoGbMaxExtentFlat</para>
106 </listitem>
107
108 <listitem>
109 <para>VBoxManage: Added missing --directory switch for guestcontrol mktemp command</para>
110 </listitem>
111
112 <listitem>
113 <para>Mouse Integration: Guest was provided with extended host mouse state (bug #21139)</para>
114 </listitem>
115
116 <listitem>
117 <para>DnD: Introduced generic improvements</para>
118 </listitem>
119
120 <listitem>
121 <para>Guest Control: Fixed handling creation mode for temporary directories
122 (bug #21394)</para>
123 </listitem>
124
125 <listitem>
126 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building UEK7 kernel on
127 Oracle Linux 8</para>
128 </listitem>
129
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel</para>
132 </listitem>
133
134 <listitem>
135 <para>Windows Host: Fixed support for VM autostart (bug#21349)</para>
136 </listitem>
137
138 <listitem>
139 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.2 for vboxvideo</para>
140 </listitem>
141
142 <listitem>
143 <para>Audio: The "--audio" option in VBoxManage is now marked as
144 deprecated; please use "--audio-driver" and "--audio-enabled"
145 instead. This will allow more flexibility when changing the driver
146 and/or controlling the audio functionality</para>
147 </listitem>
148
149 </itemizedlist>
150 </sect1>
151
152 <sect1>
153
154 <title>Version 7.0.4 (2022-11-18)</title>
155
156 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
157 added:</para>
158
159 <itemizedlist>
160
161 <listitem>
162 <para>VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)</para>
163 </listitem>
164
165 <listitem>
166 <para>VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)</para>
167 </listitem>
168
169 <listitem>
170 <para>VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)</para>
171 </listitem>
172
173 <listitem>
174 <para>VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)</para>
175 </listitem>
176
177 <listitem>
178 <para>GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager</para>
179 </listitem>
180
181 <listitem>
182 <para>GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager</para>
183 </listitem>
184
185 <listitem>
186 <para>GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font</para>
187 </listitem>
188
189 <listitem>
190 <para>GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard
191 is cancelled (bug #21244)</para>
192 </listitem>
193
194 <listitem>
195 <para>GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.</para>
196 </listitem>
197
198 <listitem>
199 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)</para>
200 </listitem>
201
202 <listitem>
203 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)</para>
204 </listitem>
205
206 <listitem>
207 <para>virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3
208 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)</para>
209 </listitem>
210
211 <listitem>
212 <para>Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)</para>
213 </listitem>
214
215 <listitem>
216 <para>VBoxManage: Fixed regression when 'createmedium disk --variant RawDisk' command resulted
217 in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)</para>
218 </listitem>
219
220 <listitem>
221 <para>Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor
222 VM configuration (bug #21137)</para>
223 </listitem>
224
225 <listitem>
226 <para>Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux
227 Guest Additions installation</para>
228 </listitem>
229
230 <listitem>
231 <para>Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)</para>
232 </listitem>
233
234 <listitem>
235 <para>3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)</para>
236 </listitem>
237
238 <listitem>
239 <para>Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts</para>
240 </listitem>
241
242 <listitem>
243 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for
244 RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272, #21258)</para>
245 </listitem>
246
247 <listitem>
248 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels</para>
249 </listitem>
250
251 <listitem>
252 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on
253 system shutdown</para>
254 </listitem>
255
256 </itemizedlist>
257 </sect1>
258
259 <sect1>
260
261 <title>Version 7.0.2 (2022-10-20)</title>
262
263 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
264 added:</para>
265
266 <itemizedlist>
267
268 <listitem>
269 <para>Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS
270 Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1
271 or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur</para>
272 </listitem>
273
274 <listitem>
275 <para>Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC could become unresponsive if Extension Pack
276 was not installed (bug #21167)</para>
277 </listitem>
278
279 <listitem>
280 <para>macOS hosts: Added workaround for a bug in the Hypervisor framework on Catalina causing
281 VERR_NEM_MAP_PAGES_FAILED errors when starting a VM. (bug #21128)</para>
282 </listitem>
283
284 <listitem>
285 <para>macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking, this is considered a bit
286 experimental still</para>
287 </listitem>
288
289 <listitem>
290 <para>macOS hosts: Fixed VM crash when the guest tries to access a microphone or webcam</para>
291 </listitem>
292
293 <listitem>
294 <para>Windows host: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when only 4Kb of host
295 clipboard buffer was accessible to guest (bug #21149)</para>
296 </listitem>
297
298 <listitem>
299 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.1</para>
300 </listitem>
301
302 <listitem>
303 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient seamless service
304 caused a crash of some X11 applications (bug #21132)</para>
305 </listitem>
306
307 <listitem>
308 <para>Windows hosts: GUI: Fixed missing Qt libraries for vista style and sql driver (bug #21155)</para>
309 </listitem>
310
311 <listitem>
312 <para>GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved (bug #21156)</para>
313 </listitem>
314
315 </itemizedlist>
316 </sect1>
317
318 <sect1>
319
320 <title>Version 7.0.0 (2022-10-10)</title>
321
322 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features were added:</para>
323
324 <itemizedlist>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs
328 and saved states (CLI only for now)</para>
329 </listitem>
330
331 <listitem>
332 <para>OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled
333 as local VMs</para>
334 </listitem>
335
336 <listitem>
337 <para>OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as
338 it is done for Host-only and NAT networks</para>
339 </listitem>
340
341 <listitem>
342 <para>GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance statistics
343 (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests</para>
344 </listitem>
345
346 <listitem>
347 <para>GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended
348 guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow</para>
349 </listitem>
350
351 <listitem>
352 <para>GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated
353 and searched</para>
354 </listitem>
355
356 <listitem>
357 <para>GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error
358 reporting around the GUI</para>
359 </listitem>
360
361 <listitem>
362 <para>GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS
363 use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.</para>
364 </listitem>
365
366 <listitem>
367 <para>GUI: Large icon update.</para>
368 </listitem>
369
370 <listitem>
371 <para>Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.
372 Opus is no longer being used.</para>
373 </listitem>
374
375 <listitem>
376 <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
377 without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
378 option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
379 </listitem>
380
381 <listitem>
382 <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
383 of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
388 guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
389 </listitem>
390
391 <listitem>
392 <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
393 make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
394 </listitem>
395
396 <listitem>
397 <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
398 in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
399 in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
400 </listitem>
401
402 <listitem>
403 <para>macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on
404 the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now. At the moment
405 the implementation lacks "Internal Networking" functionality. This will be
406 provided at a later date.</para>
407 </listitem>
408
409 <listitem>
410 <para>macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with
411 an Apple silicon CPU. This is unsupported work in progress, and is known
412 to have very modest performance.</para>
413 </listitem>
414
415 <listitem>
416 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality,
417 added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments</para>
418 </listitem>
419
420 <listitem>
421 <para>Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK
422 on non Windows hosts)</para>
423 </listitem>
424
425 <listitem>
426 <para>Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)</para>
427 </listitem>
428
429 <listitem>
430 <para>Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.0 devices</para>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Devices: The EHCI and XHCI USB controller devices are now part of the
435 open source base package</para>
436 </listitem>
437
438 <listitem>
439 <para>EFI: Added support for Secure Boot</para>
440 </listitem>
441
442 <listitem>
443 <para>Debugging: Added experimental support for guest debugging through
444 GDB and highly experimental support for guest debugging through KD/WinDbg</para>
445 </listitem>
446
447 </itemizedlist>
448
449 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
450
451 <itemizedlist>
452
453 <listitem>
454 <para>OCI: Cloud networking functionality is enhanced for local VMs, now local VMs could
455 be connected to cloud networking</para>
456 </listitem>
457
458 <listitem>
459 <para>GUI: Improved behavior of the virtual machine list and various VM related tools in case
460 multiple items are selected</para>
461 </listitem>
462
463 <listitem>
464 <para>GUI: On available platforms, added a new option to disable the host's screensaver</para>
465 </listitem>
466
467 <listitem>
468 <para>GUI: Reworked global preferences, machine settings and the wizards to improve stability
469 and usability</para>
470 </listitem>
471
472 <listitem>
473 <para>GUI: Improving mouse handling in multi-monitor case on X11 platform</para>
474 </listitem>
475
476 <listitem>
477 <para>GUI: Medium enumeration engine was reworked to improve permormance</para>
478 </listitem>
479
480 <listitem>
481 <para>GUI: NAT Network stuff was moved from global preferences to global Network Manager tool</para>
482 </listitem>
483
484 <listitem>
485 <para>GUI: Extension Pack Manager was moved from global preferences to global tools</para>
486 </listitem>
487
488 <listitem>
489 <para>GUI: Improved overall accessibility</para>
490 </listitem>
491
492 <listitem>
493 <para>GUI: Migrating to recent Qt versions.</para>
494 </listitem>
495
496 </itemizedlist>
497 </sect1>
498
499</chapter>
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