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    1515
    1616      <listitem>
     17        <para>GUI: support for video capturing (bug #4766)</para>
     18      </listitem>
     19
     20      <listitem>
    1721        <para>Emulated USB touch screen</para>
    1822      </listitem>
    … …  
    2226      </listitem>
    2327
     28      <listitem>
     29        <para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
     30          attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
     31          service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
     32        </para>
     33      </listitem>
     34
    2435    </itemizedlist>
    2536
    … …  
    2738
    2839    <itemizedlist>
     40
     41      <listitem>
     42        <para>VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC
     43          enabled</para>
     44      </listitem>
     45
     46      <listitem>
     47        <para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
     48      </listitem>
    2949
    3050      <listitem>
    … …  
    90110
    91111      <listitem>
     112        <para>3D support: several fixes</para>
     113      </listitem>
     114
     115      <listitem>
    92116        <para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
     117      </listitem>
     118
     119      <listitem>
     120        <para>OVF: several fixes</para>
    93121      </listitem>
    94122
    … …  
    127155
    128156  <sect1>
     157    <title>Version 4.2.16 (2013-07-04)</title>
     158
     159    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     160      added:</para>
     161
     162    <itemizedlist>
     163
     164      <listitem>
     165        <para>OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression;
     166          bug #11895)</para>
     167      </listitem>
     168
     169      <listitem>
     170        <para>GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off
     171          after a Guru Mediation</para>
     172      </listitem>
     173
     174      <listitem>
     175        <para>Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to
     176          the VM</para>
     177      </listitem>
     178
     179      <listitem>
     180        <para>Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive
     181          attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances</para>
     182      </listitem>
     183
     184      <listitem>
     185        <para>EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)</para>
     186      </listitem>
     187
     188      <listitem>
     189        <para>Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X</para>
     190      </listitem>
     191
     192      <listitem>
     193        <para>Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls</para>
     194      </listitem>
     195
     196      <listitem>
     197        <para>Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32</para>
     198      </listitem>
     199
     200      <listitem>
     201        <para>Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)</para>
     202      </listitem>
     203
     204      <listitem>
     205        <para>Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with
     206          <emphasis>VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool</emphasis>, remove it from the
     207          <emphasis>pkgutil --pkgs</emphasis> list as well</para>
     208      </listitem>
     209
     210    </itemizedlist>
     211  </sect1>
     212
     213  <sect1>
     214    <title>Version 4.2.14 (2013-06-21)</title>
     215
     216    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     217      added:</para>
     218
     219    <itemizedlist>
     220
     221      <listitem>
     222        <para>VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages</para>
     223      </listitem>
     224
     225      <listitem>
     226        <para>VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression;
     227          bug #11674)</para>
     228      </listitem>
     229
     230      <listitem>
     231        <para>GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown</para>
     232      </listitem>
     233
     234      <listitem>
     235        <para>GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows
     236          hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)</para>
     237      </listitem>
     238
     239      <listitem>
     240        <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize</para>
     241      </listitem>
     242
     243      <listitem>
     244        <para>VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the
     245          server) if the VM is paused</para>
     246      </listitem>
     247
     248      <listitem>
     249        <para>USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM
     250          with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)</para>
     251      </listitem>
     252
     253      <listitem>
     254        <para>USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain
     255          devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)</para>
     256      </listitem>
     257
     258      <listitem>
     259        <para>USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)</para>
     260      </listitem>
     261
     262      <listitem>
     263        <para>BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table
     264          (fixes NetWare 6.x guests)</para>
     265      </listitem>
     266
     267      <listitem>
     268        <para>BIOS: don't use the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> / <emphasis>LEAVE</emphasis>
     269          instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by
     270          certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)</para>
     271      </listitem>
     272
     273      <listitem>
     274        <para>DMI: allow to configure <emphasis>DmiChassisType</emphasis>
     275          (bug #11832)</para>
     276      </listitem>
     277
     278      <listitem>
     279        <para>Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and
     280          asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)</para>
     281      </listitem>
     282
     283      <listitem>
     284        <para>Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by
     285          Windows 8 (bug #11502)</para>
     286      </listitem>
     287
     288      <listitem>
     289        <para>Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels
     290          disk images (bug #9617)</para>
     291      </listitem>
     292
     293      <listitem>
     294        <para>3D: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)</para>
     295      </listitem>
     296
     297      <listitem>
     298        <para>3D: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older
     299          versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)</para>
     300      </listitem>
     301
     302      <listitem>
     303        <para>Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running
     304          VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
     305          (bug #11765)</para>
     306      </listitem>
     307
     308      <listitem>
     309        <para>Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties
     310          persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)</para>
     311      </listitem>
     312
     313      <listitem>
     314        <para>Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize</para>
     315      </listitem>
     316
     317      <listitem>
     318        <para>Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call
     319          <emphasis>Appliance::interpret()</emphasis> (bug #10845)</para>
     320      </listitem>
     321
     322      <listitem>
     323        <para>Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file
     324          name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)</para>
     325      </listitem>
     326
     327      <listitem>
     328        <para>Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references
     329          (bug #10689)</para>
     330      </listitem>
     331
     332      <listitem>
     333        <para>Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak</para>
     334      </listitem>
     335
     336      <listitem>
     337        <para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
     338          will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
     339      </listitem>
     340
     341      <listitem>
     342        <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using
     343          <emphasis>sethdparentuuid</emphasis></para>
     344      </listitem>
     345
     346      <listitem>
     347        <para>Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of
     348          automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
     349          (bug #11610)</para>
     350      </listitem>
     351
     352      <listitem>
     353        <para>Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate
     354          in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the
     355          <emphasis>--silent</emphasis> command line option is specified</para>
     356      </listitem>
     357
     358      <listitem>
     359        <para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the
     360          unattended case</para>
     361      </listitem>
     362
     363      <listitem>
     364        <para>Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button
     365          in seamless mode for some themes</para>
     366      </listitem>
     367
     368      <listitem>
     369        <para>Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes</para>
     370      </listitem>
     371
     372      <listitem>
     373        <para>Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon
     374          credentials if current ones were not processed yet</para>
     375      </listitem>
     376
     377      <listitem>
     378        <para>Windows Additions installer: added the <emphasis>/with_wddm</emphasis>
     379          switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default</para>
     380      </listitem>
     381
     382      <listitem>
     383        <para>Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in
     384          information label of the lightdm greeter</para>
     385      </listitem>
     386
     387      <listitem>
     388        <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu
     389          kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel
     390          build fix; bug #11709)</para>
     391      </listitem>
     392
     393      <listitem>
     394        <para>X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in
     395          drag'and'drop mode</para>
     396      </listitem>
     397
     398      <listitem>
     399        <para>OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)</para>
     400      </listitem>
     401
     402      <listitem>
     403        <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two
     404           guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)</para>
     405      </listitem>
     406
     407      <listitem>
     408        <para>Guest Additions: fixed guest process timeout / kill handling</para>
     409      </listitem>
     410
     411    </itemizedlist>
     412  </sect1>
     413
     414  <sect1>
     415    <title>Version 4.2.12 (2013-04-12)</title>
     416
     417    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     418      added:</para>
     419
     420    <itemizedlist>
     421
     422      <listitem>
     423        <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if
     424          nested paging is disabled</para>
     425      </listitem>
     426
     427      <listitem>
     428        <para>VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages</para>
     429      </listitem>
     430
     431      <listitem>
     432        <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change</para>
     433      </listitem>
     434
     435      <listitem>
     436        <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain
     437          disabled on visual-mode change</para>
     438      </listitem>
     439
     440      <listitem>
     441        <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging
     442          in different visual-modes</para>
     443      </listitem>
     444
     445      <listitem>
     446        <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless
     447          screens were represented by fullscreen windows</para>
     448      </listitem>
     449
     450      <listitem>
     451        <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen
     452          configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
     453      </listitem>
     454
     455      <listitem>
     456        <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should
     457          have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
     458      </listitem>
     459
     460      <listitem>
     461        <para>GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on
     462          content/window resize</para>
     463      </listitem>
     464
     465      <listitem>
     466        <para>GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event</para>
     467      </listitem>
     468
     469      <listitem>
     470        <para>GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration
     471          if the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
     472      </listitem>
     473
     474      <listitem>
     475        <para>Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle
     476          partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)</para>
     477      </listitem>
     478
     479      <listitem>
     480        <para>Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size
     481          changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)</para>
     482      </listitem>
     483
     484      <listitem>
     485        <para>Audio: fixed broken ALSA &amp; PulseAudio on some Linux hosts
     486          due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)</para>
     487      </listitem>
     488
     489      <listitem>
     490        <para>PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate
     491          after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)</para>
     492      </listitem>
     493
     494      <listitem>
     495        <para>BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4):
     496          corrected L1 &amp; L2 cache table handles</para>
     497      </listitem>
     498
     499      <listitem>
     500        <para>Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect
     501          time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back
     502          to Jan 1 1970</para>
     503      </listitem>
     504
     505      <listitem>
     506        <para>Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software
     507          RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts</para>
     508      </listitem>
     509
     510      <listitem>
     511        <para>VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created
     512          and the VM was running before</para>
     513      </listitem>
     514
     515      <listitem>
     516        <para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>controlvm nicpromisc</emphasis>
     517          (bug #11423)</para>
     518      </listitem>
     519
     520      <listitem>
     521        <para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
     522            guestmemoryballoon</emphasis> of the VM isn't running (bug #11639)</para>
     523      </listitem>
     524
     525      <listitem>
     526        <para>VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would
     527          affect all clients (bug #11644)</para>
     528      </listitem>
     529
     530      <listitem>
     531        <para>Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated
     532          by guest commands and do NLS conversion</para>
     533      </listitem>
     534
     535      <listitem>
     536        <para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer
     537          kernels if the <emphasis>CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS</emphasis>
     538          config option is enabled (bug #11664)</para>
     539      </listitem>
     540
     541      <listitem>
     542        <para>Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based
     543          guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded</para>
     544      </listitem>
     545
     546      <listitem>
     547        <para>Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)</para>
     548      </listitem>
     549
     550      <listitem>
     551        <para>Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile
     552          fix (bug #11634)</para>
     553      </listitem>
     554
     555      <listitem>
     556        <para>Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using
     557          LightDM as the display manager</para>
     558      </listitem>
     559
     560      <listitem>
     561        <para>Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable
     562          of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
     563          (bug #6118)</para>
     564      </listitem>
     565
     566      <listitem>
     567        <para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)</para>
     568      </listitem>
     569
     570     </itemizedlist>
     571
     572  </sect1>
     573
     574  <sect1>
     575    <title>Version 4.2.10 (2013-03-05)</title>
     576
     577    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     578      added:</para>
     579
     580    <itemizedlist>
     581
     582      <listitem>
     583        <para>GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)</para>
     584      </listitem>
     585
     586      <listitem>
     587        <para>Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain
     588          conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
     589      </listitem>
     590
     591      <listitem>
     592        <para>Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for
     593          example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)</para>
     594      </listitem>
     595
     596      <listitem>
     597        <para>Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not
     598          currently active</para>
     599      </listitem>
     600
     601      <listitem>
     602        <para>Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with
     603          Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
     604      </listitem>
     605
     606      <listitem>
     607        <para>VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified
     608          with <emphasis>export --eulafile (bug #11528)</emphasis></para>
     609      </listitem>
     610
     611      <listitem>
     612        <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes</para>
     613      </listitem>
     614
     615      <listitem>
     616        <para>Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders
     617          guest kernel module (bug #11390)</para>
     618      </listitem>
     619
     620      <listitem>
     621        <para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is
     622          not available (bug #8638)</para>
     623      </listitem>
     624
     625      <listitem>
     626        <para>Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support</para>
     627      </listitem>
     628
     629    </itemizedlist>
     630  </sect1>
     631
     632  <sect1>
     633    <title>Version 4.2.8 (2013-02-20)</title>
     634
     635    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     636      added:</para>
     637
     638    <itemizedlist>
     639
     640      <listitem>
     641        <para>VMM: fixed a guest crash with a huge amount of guest RAM on
     642          VT-x hosts (bug #11306)</para>
     643      </listitem>
     644
     645      <listitem>
     646        <para>GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog
     647          (bug #10982)</para>
     648      </listitem>
     649
     650      <listitem>
     651        <para>GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account
     652          during the language switch (bug #11342)</para>
     653      </listitem>
     654
     655      <listitem>
     656        <para>GUI: the <emphasis>take guest screenshot</emphasis> dialog sometimes
     657          had no keyboard input available on Windows host</para>
     658      </listitem>
     659
     660      <listitem>
     661        <para>Main/Machine: fix the generation of a spurious event for inaccessible
     662          VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation
     663          with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression; bug
     664          #11323)</para>
     665      </listitem>
     666
     667      <listitem>
     668        <para>Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain
     669          conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)</para>
     670      </listitem>
     671
     672      <listitem>
     673        <para>Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for
     674          active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated
     675          when the associated metric is enabled via <emphasis>setupMetrics</emphasis></para>
     676      </listitem>
     677
     678      <listitem>
     679        <para>Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under
     680          certain conditions</para>
     681      </listitem>
     682
     683      <listitem>
     684        <para>Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under
     685          certain circumstances (bug #11344)</para>
     686      </listitem>
     687
     688      <listitem>
     689        <para>Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
     690          (4.2.6 regression, bug #11359)</para>
     691      </listitem>
     692
     693      <listitem>
     694        <para>Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI
     695          targets</para>
     696      </listitem>
     697
     698      <listitem>
     699        <para>Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with
     700          Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
     701      </listitem>
     702
     703      <listitem>
     704        <para>Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation
     705          for IPv6 (bug #9380)</para>
     706      </listitem>
     707
     708      <listitem>
     709        <para>3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)</para>
     710      </listitem>
     711
     712      <listitem>
     713        <para>Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings
     714          file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)</para>
     715      </listitem>
     716
     717      <listitem>
     718        <para>Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs</para>
     719      </listitem>
     720
     721      <listitem>
     722        <para>VBoxManage: don't crash during <emphasis>screenshotpng</emphasis>
     723          if there is no display (bug #11363)</para>
     724      </listitem>
     725
     726      <listitem>
     727        <para>Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong
     728          kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux
     729          host kernel (bug #11035)</para>
     730      </listitem>
     731
     732      <listitem>
     733        <para>Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module
     734          load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)</para>
     735      </listitem>
     736
     737      <listitem>
     738        <para>Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards</para>
     739      </listitem>
     740
     741      <listitem>
     742        <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox
     743          kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)</para>
     744      </listitem>
     745
     746      <listitem>
     747        <para>Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100%
     748          when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)</para>
     749      </listitem>
     750
     751      <listitem>
     752        <para>Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from
     753           a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
     754           </para>
     755      </listitem>
     756
     757      <listitem>
     758        <para>Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed
     759          via guest control</para>
     760      </listitem>
     761
     762      <listitem>
     763        <para>Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
     764          (bug #10970)</para>
     765      </listitem>
     766
     767      <listitem>
     768        <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with
     769          large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)</para>
     770      </listitem>
     771
     772      <listitem>
     773        <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)</para>
     774      </listitem>
     775
     776      <listitem>
     777        <para>X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions
     778          (bug #10987)</para>
     779      </listitem>
     780
     781      <listitem>
     782        <para>X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv
     783          for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)</para>
     784      </listitem>
     785
     786      <listitem>
     787        <para>X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with
     788          X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)</para>
     789      </listitem>
     790
     791    </itemizedlist>
     792
     793  </sect1>
     794
     795  <sect1>
     796    <title>Version 4.2.6 (2012-12-19)</title>
     797
     798    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     799      added:</para>
     800
     801    <itemizedlist>
     802
     803      <listitem>
     804        <para>VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
     805          (bug #11256)</para>
     806      </listitem>
     807
     808      <listitem>
     809        <para>VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable <emphasis>MONITOR</emphasis>
     810          only for certain CPUs (bug #9460)</para>
     811      </listitem>
     812
     813      <listitem>
     814        <para>GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers
     815          (4.2.0 regression)</para>
     816      </listitem>
     817
     818      <listitem>
     819        <para>GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts
     820          (4.2.0 regression)</para>
     821      </listitem>
     822
     823      <listitem>
     824        <para>GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
     825          (bug #11095)</para>
     826      </listitem>
     827
     828      <listitem>
     829        <para>GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)</para>
     830      </listitem>
     831
     832      <listitem>
     833        <para>GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)</para>
     834      </listitem>
     835
     836      <listitem>
     837        <para>GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed</para>
     838      </listitem>
     839
     840      <listitem>
     841        <para>API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead
     842          to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)</para>
     843      </listitem>
     844
     845      <listitem>
     846        <para>API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)</para>
     847      </listitem>
     848
     849      <listitem>
     850        <para>3D Support: several fixes</para>
     851      </listitem>
     852
     853      <listitem>
     854        <para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
     855         (bug #11156)</para>
     856      </listitem>
     857
     858      <listitem>
     859        <para>VGA: fix for double scan text modes</para>
     860      </listitem>
     861
     862      <listitem>
     863        <para>USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service
     864          of <emphasis>DEVICE POWER</emphasis> requests (Windows hosts only;
     865          bugs #10021, #11056)</para>
     866      </listitem>
     867
     868      <listitem>
     869        <para>USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)</para>
     870      </listitem>
     871
     872      <listitem>
     873        <para>Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled</para>
     874      </listitem>
     875
     876      <listitem>
     877        <para>Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)</para>
     878      </listitem>
     879
     880      <listitem>
     881        <para>Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM
     882          settings (4.2.0 regression)</para>
     883      </listitem>
     884
     885      <listitem>
     886        <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters
     887        in Session Information dialog (GUI)</para>
     888      </listitem>
     889
     890      <listitem>
     891        <para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>network rate</emphasis> and
     892          <emphasis>disk usage</emphasis> metrics</para>
     893      </listitem>
     894
     895      <listitem>
     896        <para>Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts</para>
     897      </listitem>
     898
     899      <listitem>
     900        <para>BIOS: fix for El Torito</para>
     901      </listitem>
     902
     903      <listitem>
     904        <para>Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does
     905          not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent
     906          inconsitent saved states (bug #11147)</para>
     907      </listitem>
     908
     909      <listitem>
     910        <para>VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images</para>
     911      </listitem>
     912
     913      <listitem>
     914        <para>VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot
     915          information</para>
     916      </listitem>
     917
     918      <listitem>
     919        <para>VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all
     920          places dealing with media</para>
     921      </listitem>
     922
     923      <listitem>
     924        <para>VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings
     925          file when doing <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> (bug #11212)</para>
     926      </listitem>
     927
     928      <listitem>
     929        <para>VBoxManage: <emphasis>metrics collect</emphasis> now properly handles
     930          <computeroutput>'CPU/MHz'</computeroutput> and
     931          <computeroutput>'Net/*/LinkSpeed'</computeroutput> metrics</para>
     932      </listitem>
     933
     934      <listitem>
     935        <para>VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of
     936          <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> works now in all safe cases</para>
     937      </listitem>
     938
     939      <listitem>
     940        <para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>storageattach --medium additions</emphasis>
     941          as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)</para>
     942      </listitem>
     943
     944      <listitem>
     945        <para>OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware
     946          products (bug #10905)</para>
     947      </listitem>
     948
     949      <listitem>
     950        <para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking
     951          connections in conntrack (bug #11178)</para>
     952      </listitem>
     953
     954      <listitem>
     955        <para>Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the
     956          vminfo service of VBoxService</para>
     957      </listitem>
     958
     959      <listitem>
     960        <para>Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain
     961          conditions (bug #11291)</para>
     962      </listitem>
     963
     964      <listitem>
     965        <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection</para>
     966      </listitem>
     967
     968      <listitem>
     969        <para>Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories
     970          are reachable when starting VBox services</para>
     971      </listitem>
     972
     973      <listitem>
     974        <para>Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations,
     975          thanks to all contributors!</para>
     976      </listitem>
     977
     978      <listitem>
     979        <para>Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8</para>
     980      </listitem>
     981
     982      <listitem>
     983        <para>Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not
     984          available</para>
     985      </listitem>
     986
     987      <listitem>
     988        <para>Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000
     989          guests (bug #11253)</para>
     990      </listitem>
     991
     992      <listitem>
     993        <para>Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests</para>
     994      </listitem>
     995    </itemizedlist>
     996
     997  </sect1>
     998
     999  <sect1>
     1000    <title>Version 4.2.4 (2012-10-26)</title>
     1001
     1002    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     1003      added:</para>
     1004
     1005    <itemizedlist>
     1006
     1007      <listitem>
     1008        <para>GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
     1009          (4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)</para>
     1010      </listitem>
     1011
     1012      <listitem>
     1013        <para>GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain
     1014          conditions (OS X hosts only)</para>
     1015      </listitem>
     1016
     1017      <listitem>
     1018        <para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of
     1019         ballooning module</para>
     1020      </listitem>
     1021
     1022      <listitem>
     1023        <para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the
     1024          guest (bug #11082)</para>
     1025      </listitem>
     1026
     1027      <listitem>
     1028        <para>BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)</para>
     1029      </listitem>
     1030
     1031      <listitem>
     1032        <para>BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks</para>
     1033      </listitem>
     1034
     1035      <listitem>
     1036        <para>EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)</para>
     1037      </listitem>
     1038
     1039      <listitem>
     1040        <para>Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty
     1041          error (Windows hosts only)</para>
     1042      </listitem>
     1043
     1044      <listitem>
     1045        <para>NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used</para>
     1046      </listitem>
     1047
     1048      <listitem>
     1049        <para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances</para>
     1050      </listitem>
     1051
     1052    </itemizedlist>
     1053  </sect1>
     1054
     1055  <sect1>
     1056    <title>Version 4.2.2 (2012-10-18)</title>
     1057
     1058    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     1059      added:</para>
     1060
     1061    <itemizedlist>
     1062
     1063      <listitem>
     1064        <para>VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)</para>
     1065      </listitem>
     1066
     1067      <listitem>
     1068        <para>GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)</para>
     1069      </listitem>
     1070
     1071      <listitem>
     1072        <para>GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality</para>
     1073      </listitem>
     1074
     1075      <listitem>
     1076        <para>GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association
     1077          (4.2 regression)</para>
     1078      </listitem>
     1079
     1080      <listitem>
     1081        <para>GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the
     1082          first VM was created (bug #10928)</para>
     1083      </listitem>
     1084
     1085      <listitem>
     1086        <para>GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are
     1087          full children list of the same group already</para>
     1088      </listitem>
     1089
     1090      <listitem>
     1091        <para>GUI: added menu for runtime drag-and-drop option change</para>
     1092      </listitem>
     1093
     1094      <listitem>
     1095        <para>GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change</para>
     1096      </listitem>
     1097
     1098      <listitem>
     1099        <para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering fullscreen-mode
     1100          on Win host (bug #11051)</para>
     1101      </listitem>
     1102
     1103      <listitem>
     1104        <para>GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons</para>
     1105      </listitem>
     1106
     1107      <listitem>
     1108        <para>3D Support: <emphasis>DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP</emphasis> implementation
     1109          fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929) </para>
     1110      </listitem>
     1111
     1112      <listitem>
     1113        <para>Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests
     1114          where cancelled with asynchronous I/O disabled</para>
     1115      </listitem>
     1116
     1117      <listitem>
     1118        <para>Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
     1119           (bug #10898)</para>
     1120      </listitem>
     1121
     1122      <listitem>
     1123        <para>NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only;
     1124          bug #10128)</para>
     1125      </listitem>
     1126
     1127      <listitem>
     1128        <para>NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is
     1129          set to some unusual loopback value (bug #10864)</para>
     1130      </listitem>
     1131
     1132      <listitem>
     1133        <para>E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers
     1134           (4.2 regression; bugs #10936, #10969, #10980)</para>
     1135      </listitem>
     1136
     1137      <listitem>
     1138        <para>ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization</para>
     1139      </listitem>
     1140
     1141      <listitem>
     1142        <para>USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs
     1143          are available</para>
     1144      </listitem>
     1145
     1146      <listitem>
     1147        <para>BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot
     1148          device after a warm reboot</para>
     1149      </listitem>
     1150
     1151      <listitem>
     1152        <para>BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border
     1153          color</para>
     1154      </listitem>
     1155
     1156      <listitem>
     1157        <para>EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)</para>
     1158      </listitem>
     1159
     1160      <listitem>
     1161        <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
     1162          (bug #10973)</para>
     1163      </listitem>
     1164
     1165      <listitem>
     1166        <para>VBoxManage: fixed parsing of <emphasis>storageattach --discard</emphasis>
     1167          (bug #11023)</para>
     1168      </listitem>
     1169
     1170      <listitem>
     1171        <para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
     1172          (bug #11065)</para>
     1173      </listitem>
     1174
     1175      <listitem>
     1176        <para>VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a
     1177          guest process via guest control</para>
     1178      </listitem>
     1179
     1180      <listitem>
     1181        <para>VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes</para>
     1182      </listitem>
     1183
     1184      <listitem>
     1185        <para>Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a
     1186         machine was reset after a crash</para>
     1187      </listitem>
     1188
     1189      <listitem>
     1190        <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes</para>
     1191      </listitem>
     1192
     1193      <listitem>
     1194        <para>Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13</para>
     1195      </listitem>
     1196
     1197      <listitem>
     1198        <para>Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with
     1199           old guest kernels</para>
     1200      </listitem>
     1201
     1202      <listitem>
     1203        <para>Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
     1204           (bug #10964)</para>
     1205      </listitem>
     1206
     1207      <listitem>
     1208        <para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize
     1209          issue for NT4 guests</para>
     1210      </listitem>
     1211
     1212      <listitem>
     1213        <para>OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang</para>
     1214      </listitem>
     1215
     1216      <listitem>
     1217        <para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic</para>
     1218      </listitem>
     1219
     1220      <listitem>
     1221        <para>Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after
     1222          all VMs started</para>
     1223      </listitem>
     1224
     1225      <listitem>
     1226        <para>Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module</para>
     1227      </listitem>
     1228
     1229    </itemizedlist>
     1230
     1231  </sect1>
     1232
     1233  <sect1>
    1291234
    1301235    <title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
    … …  
    5631668
    5641669      <listitem>
    565         <para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
     1670        <para>Windows Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
    5661671      </listitem>
    5671672
    … …  
    51656270
    51666271      <listitem>
    5167         <para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
     6272        <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
    51686273           and on some 64bit guests</para>
    51696274       </listitem>
    51706275
    51716276       <listitem>
    5172          <para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
     6277         <para>Linux Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
    51736278           text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
    51746279       </listitem>
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