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r50447 r50742 52 52 </itemizedlist> 53 53 54 </sect1> 55 56 <sect1> 57 <title>Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)</title> 58 59 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or 60 added:</para> 61 62 <itemizedlist> 63 64 <listitem> 65 <para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers 66 (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)</para> 67 </listitem> 68 69 <listitem> 70 <para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_INVALID_RPL</emphasis> Guru Meditation 71 when booting certain guests (bug #11350)</para> 72 </listitem> 73 74 <listitem> 75 <para>VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see 76 <xref linkend="sse412passthrough" xreflabel="here"/> how to 77 enable it (bug #8651)</para> 78 </listitem> 79 80 <listitem> 81 <para>VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization</para> 82 </listitem> 83 84 <listitem> 85 <para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see 86 <xref linkend="hidledssync" xreflabel="here"/></para> 87 </listitem> 88 89 <listitem> 90 <para>GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and 91 the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)</para> 92 </listitem> 93 94 <listitem> 95 <para>GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in 96 full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)</para> 97 </listitem> 98 99 <listitem> 100 <para>GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box 101 replaced with corresponding button</para> 102 </listitem> 103 104 <listitem> 105 <para>GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through 106 the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar 107 indicator</para> 108 </listitem> 109 110 <listitem> 111 <para>GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts 112 by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types 113 (bug #12533)</para> 114 </listitem> 115 116 <listitem> 117 <para>GUI: better error message if appliance import fails 118 (bug #12657)</para> 119 </listitem> 120 121 <listitem> 122 <para>GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings 123 / Input page (bug #12730)</para> 124 </listitem> 125 126 <listitem> 127 <para>GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot 128 merge (4.3 regression)</para> 129 </listitem> 130 131 <listitem> 132 <para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression 133 of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on 134 import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported 135 several times</para> 136 </listitem> 137 138 <listitem> 139 <para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances</para> 140 </listitem> 141 142 <listitem> 143 <para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain 144 circumstances</para> 145 </listitem> 146 147 <listitem> 148 <para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a 149 SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para> 150 </listitem> 151 152 <listitem> 153 <para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para> 154 </listitem> 155 156 <listitem> 157 <para>AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions</para> 158 </listitem> 159 160 <listitem> 161 <para>AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes</para> 162 </listitem> 163 164 <listitem> 165 <para>NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration 166 changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used 167 (bug #12441)</para> 168 </listitem> 169 170 <listitem> 171 <para>NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with 172 ICMP packets having TTL=1</para> 173 </listitem> 174 175 <listitem> 176 <para>NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly</para> 177 </listitem> 178 179 <listitem> 180 <para>NAT Network: ping proxy implemented</para> 181 </listitem> 182 183 <listitem> 184 <para>OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element 185 (4.3 regression; bug #12345)</para> 186 </listitem> 187 188 <listitem> 189 <para>OVF: several fixes</para> 190 </listitem> 191 192 <listitem> 193 <para>3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)</para> 194 </listitem> 195 196 <listitem> 197 <para>3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)</para> 198 </listitem> 199 200 <listitem> 201 <para>3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)</para> 202 </listitem> 203 204 <listitem> 205 <para>VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest 206 Additions are active (bug #6649)</para> 207 </listitem> 208 209 <listitem> 210 <para>USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare 211 circumstances</para> 212 </listitem> 213 214 <listitem> 215 <para>BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives</para> 216 </listitem> 217 218 <listitem> 219 <para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, 220 happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para> 221 </listitem> 222 223 <listitem> 224 <para>VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events 225 (see <xref linkend="hostpowertweaks" xreflabel="here"/>) and 226 added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low 227 event (bug #9925)</para> 228 </listitem> 229 230 <listitem> 231 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot 232 was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups 233 (bug #12569)</para> 234 </listitem> 235 236 <listitem> 237 <para>VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in <emphasis>/bin</emphasis> 238 (bug #12713)</para> 239 </listitem> 240 241 <listitem> 242 <para>Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders 243 when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)</para> 244 </listitem> 245 246 <listitem> 247 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in 248 the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network 249 (bug #12241)</para> 250 </listitem> 251 252 <listitem> 253 <para>Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining 254 the number of physical CPU cores</para> 255 </listitem> 256 257 <listitem> 258 <para>Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation 259 fails (bug #11171)</para> 260 </listitem> 261 262 <listitem> 263 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)</para> 264 </listitem> 265 266 <listitem> 267 <para>Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar 268 environment contents (bug #12596)</para> 269 </listitem> 270 271 <listitem> 272 <para>Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process 273 environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)</para> 274 </listitem> 275 276 <listitem> 277 <para>Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)</para> 278 </listitem> 279 280 <listitem> 281 <para>Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users</para> 282 </listitem> 283 284 <listitem> 285 <para>Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on 286 XPDM -> WDDM upgrade</para> 287 </listitem> 288 289 <listitem> 290 <para>Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process 291 environment variables</para> 292 </listitem> 293 294 <listitem> 295 <para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels 296 (bug #12505)</para> 297 </listitem> 298 299 <listitem> 300 <para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para> 301 </listitem> 302 303 <listitem> 304 <para>Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already 305 mounted</para> 306 </listitem> 307 308 <listitem> 309 <para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)</para> 310 </listitem> 311 312 </itemizedlist> 313 314 </sect1> 315 316 <sect1> 317 <title>Version 4.3.6 (2013-12-18)</title> 318 319 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or 320 added:</para> 321 322 <itemizedlist> 323 324 <listitem> 325 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> 326 caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)</para> 327 </listitem> 328 329 <listitem> 330 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE</emphasis> 331 while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)</para> 332 </listitem> 333 334 <listitem> 335 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT</emphasis> 336 while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)</para> 337 </listitem> 338 339 <listitem> 340 <para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC</emphasis> error when trying 341 to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, 342 VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard 343 these states (bug #12414)</para> 344 </listitem> 345 346 <listitem> 347 <para>VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests 348 (bug #12245)</para> 349 </listitem> 350 351 <listitem> 352 <para>GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug 353 #12205)</para> 354 </listitem> 355 356 <listitem> 357 <para>GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors 358 (bug #12480)</para> 359 </listitem> 360 361 <listitem> 362 <para>Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if 363 VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)</para> 364 </listitem> 365 366 <listitem> 367 <para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests 368 (bug #12017)</para> 369 </listitem> 370 371 <listitem> 372 <para>Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change 373 (bug #7063)</para> 374 </listitem> 375 376 <listitem> 377 <para>Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling 378 <emphasis>IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()</emphasis> (bug #12498)</para> 379 </listitem> 380 381 <listitem> 382 <para>API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes 383 due to GUI unavailability</para> 384 </listitem> 385 386 <listitem> 387 <para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under 388 rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para> 389 </listitem> 390 391 <listitem> 392 <para>Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)</para> 393 </listitem> 394 395 <listitem> 396 <para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized 397 the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the 398 initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para> 399 </listitem> 400 401 <listitem> 402 <para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina 403 hosts only; bug #11021)</para> 404 </listitem> 405 406 <listitem> 407 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones 408 (4.3 regression, bug #12271)</para> 409 </listitem> 410 411 </itemizedlist> 412 413 </sect1> 414 415 <sect1> 416 <title>Version 4.3.4 (2013-11-29)</title> 417 418 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or 419 added:</para> 420 421 <itemizedlist> 422 423 <listitem> 424 <para>VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when 425 booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)</para> 426 </listitem> 427 428 <listitem> 429 <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled 430 (4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)</para> 431 </listitem> 432 433 <listitem> 434 <para>VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain 435 instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)</para> 436 </listitem> 437 438 <listitem> 439 <para>VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting 440 a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)</para> 441 </listitem> 442 443 <listitem> 444 <para>VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when 445 the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)</para> 446 </listitem> 447 448 <listitem> 449 <para>VMM: fixed occasional <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> errors on 450 hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)</para> 451 </listitem> 452 453 <listitem> 454 <para>GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no 455 Guest Additions are installed</para> 456 </listitem> 457 458 <listitem> 459 <para>GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen 460 resize</para> 461 </listitem> 462 463 <listitem> 464 <para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to 465 the exported appliance</para> 466 </listitem> 467 468 <listitem> 469 <para>GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)</para> 470 </listitem> 471 472 <listitem> 473 <para>GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual 474 look and feel styles (bug #11743)</para> 475 </listitem> 476 477 <listitem> 478 <para>GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after 479 VM reboot or shutdown</para> 480 </listitem> 481 482 <listitem> 483 <para>GUI: fixes for medium enumeration</para> 484 </listitem> 485 486 <listitem> 487 <para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM 488 is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para> 489 </listitem> 490 491 <listitem> 492 <para>GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot 493 if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)</para> 494 </listitem> 495 496 <listitem> 497 <para>Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces 498 (4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)</para> 499 </listitem> 500 501 <listitem> 502 <para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot 503 access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para> 504 </listitem> 505 506 <listitem> 507 <para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes 508 and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para> 509 </listitem> 510 511 <listitem> 512 <para>NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting / 513 terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration 514 changes</para> 515 </listitem> 516 517 <listitem> 518 <para>VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating 519 (bug #12264)</para> 520 </listitem> 521 522 <listitem> 523 <para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches 524 (bug #9194)</para> 525 </listitem> 526 527 <listitem> 528 <para>BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI 529 controller enabled</para> 530 </listitem> 531 532 <listitem> 533 <para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state 534 where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para> 535 </listitem> 536 537 <listitem> 538 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0 539 regression)</para> 540 </listitem> 541 542 <listitem> 543 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization 544 (bug #12349)</para> 545 </listitem> 546 547 <listitem> 548 <para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple 549 VMs</para> 550 </listitem> 551 552 <listitem> 553 <para>OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format 554 during OVF import</para> 555 </listitem> 556 557 <listitem> 558 <para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child 559 snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, 560 their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM 561 config corruption</para> 562 </listitem> 563 564 <listitem> 565 <para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot 566 as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para> 567 </listitem> 568 569 <listitem> 570 <para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events 571 (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused 572 errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice 573 (bug #12379)</para> 574 </listitem> 575 576 <listitem> 577 <para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para> 578 </listitem> 579 580 <listitem> 581 <para>Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help 582 (bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)</para> 583 </listitem> 584 585 <listitem> 586 <para>Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency 587 (bug #6242)</para> 588 </listitem> 589 590 <listitem> 591 <para>Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional, 592 contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)</para> 593 </listitem> 594 595 <listitem> 596 <para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks 597 hosts (bug #12256)</para> 598 </listitem> 599 600 <listitem> 601 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was 602 not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing 603 Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)</para> 604 </listitem> 605 606 <listitem> 607 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)</para> 608 </listitem> 609 610 <listitem> 611 <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)</para> 612 </listitem> 613 614 <listitem> 615 <para>Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on 616 OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para> 617 </listitem> 618 619 <listitem> 620 <para>Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1 621 (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para> 622 </listitem> 623 624 <listitem> 625 <para>Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)</para> 626 </listitem> 627 628 <listitem> 629 <para>Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)</para> 630 </listitem> 631 632 <listitem> 633 <para>Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video 634 modes for each virtual monitor</para> 635 </listitem> 636 637 <listitem> 638 <para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows 639 guests (bug #12332)</para> 640 </listitem> 641 642 </itemizedlist> 643 </sect1> 644 645 <sect1> 646 <title>Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)</title> 647 648 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or 649 added:</para> 650 651 <itemizedlist> 652 653 <listitem> 654 <para>VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host 655 BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts 656 (bug #12237)</para> 657 </listitem> 658 659 <listitem> 660 <para>VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on 661 certain hosts</para> 662 </listitem> 663 664 <listitem> 665 <para>VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would 666 not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI</para> 667 </listitem> 668 669 <listitem> 670 <para>VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests 671 that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)</para> 672 </listitem> 673 674 <listitem> 675 <para>VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized 676 VMs (bug #12222)</para> 677 </listitem> 678 679 <listitem> 680 <para>VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured 681 to use software virtualization</para> 682 </listitem> 683 684 <listitem> 685 <para>GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change 686 (when switching from normal to full screen etc)</para> 687 </listitem> 688 689 <listitem> 690 <para>GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a 691 saved state if the host screen size changed</para> 692 </listitem> 693 694 <listitem> 695 <para>GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization 696 (Mac OS X hosts only)</para> 697 </listitem> 698 699 <listitem> 700 <para>Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see 701 <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para> 702 </listitem> 703 704 <listitem> 705 <para>Guest Control: implemented more <computeroutput>IGuestSession</computeroutput> 706 methods</para> 707 </listitem> 708 709 <listitem> 710 <para>Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in 711 VBoxManage</para> 712 </listitem> 713 714 <listitem> 715 <para>Guest Control: various bugfixes</para> 716 </listitem> 717 718 <listitem> 719 <para>API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting 720 in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting 721 re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)</para> 722 </listitem> 723 724 <listitem> 725 <para>3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled 726 (Mac OS X hosts only)</para> 727 </listitem> 728 729 <listitem> 730 <para>3D support: miscellaneous fixes</para> 731 </listitem> 732 733 <listitem> 734 <para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty 735 to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para> 736 </listitem> 737 738 <listitem> 739 <para>Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain 740 circumstances</para> 741 </listitem> 742 743 <listitem> 744 <para>NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime</para> 745 </listitem> 746 747 <listitem> 748 <para>NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent 749 storage</para> 750 </listitem> 751 752 <listitem> 753 <para>Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration</para> 754 </listitem> 755 756 <listitem> 757 <para>Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias 758 from the VM selector</para> 759 </listitem> 760 761 <listitem> 762 <para>Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade 763 (bug #12258)</para> 764 </listitem> 765 766 <listitem> 767 <para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing 768 (bug #12166)</para> 769 </listitem> 770 771 <listitem> 772 <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, 773 thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para> 774 </listitem> 775 776 <listitem> 777 <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)</para> 778 </listitem> 779 780 <listitem> 781 <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)</para> 782 </listitem> 783 784 <listitem> 785 <para>Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering</para> 786 </listitem> 787 788 <listitem> 789 <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes</para> 790 </listitem> 791 792 </itemizedlist> 54 793 </sect1> 55 794 … … 354 1093 355 1094 <sect1> 1095 <title>Version 4.2.22 (2014-01-10)</title> 1096 1097 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or 1098 added:</para> 1099 1100 <itemizedlist> 1101 1102 <listitem> 1103 <para>GUI: Mac OS X host: introduced extradata option "GUI/HidLedsSync" aimed to enable 1104 HID LEDs synchronization (feature disabled by default)</para> 1105 </listitem> 1106 1107 <listitem> 1108 <para>GUI: Mac OS X host: fixed issue on MacBook Air/Pro hosts when GUI 1109 might freeze in attempt to synchronize HID LEDs</para> 1110 </listitem> 1111 1112 <listitem> 1113 <para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests 1114 (bug #12017)</para> 1115 </listitem> 1116 1117 <listitem> 1118 <para>HGCM: fixed crashes under certain conditions</para> 1119 </listitem> 1120 1121 <listitem> 1122 <para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under 1123 rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para> 1124 </listitem> 1125 1126 <listitem> 1127 <para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a 1128 SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para> 1129 </listitem> 1130 1131 <listitem> 1132 <para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para> 1133 </listitem> 1134 1135 <listitem> 1136 <para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized 1137 the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the 1138 initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para> 1139 </listitem> 1140 1141 <listitem> 1142 <para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina 1143 hosts only; bug #11021)</para> 1144 </listitem> 1145 1146 <listitem> 1147 <para>3D support: many fixes</para> 1148 </listitem> 1149 1150 <listitem> 1151 <para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels 1152 (bug #12505)</para> 1153 </listitem> 1154 1155 <listitem> 1156 <para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para> 1157 </listitem> 1158 1159 <listitem> 1160 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest crashes in in Shared Folders 1161 service under certain conditions</para> 1162 </listitem> 1163 1164 </itemizedlist> 1165 1166 </sect1> 1167 1168 <sect1> 1169 <title>Version 4.2.20 (2013-11-28)</title> 1170 1171 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or 1172 added:</para> 1173 1174 <itemizedlist> 1175 1176 <listitem> 1177 <para>GUI: always report recommended resolutions for all monitors 1178 (not always done since 4.2.12)</para> 1179 </listitem> 1180 1181 <listitem> 1182 <para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to 1183 the exported appliance</para> 1184 </listitem> 1185 1186 <listitem> 1187 <para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM 1188 is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para> 1189 </listitem> 1190 1191 <listitem> 1192 <para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot 1193 access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para> 1194 </listitem> 1195 1196 <listitem> 1197 <para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes 1198 and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para> 1199 </listitem> 1200 1201 <listitem> 1202 <para>Main: properly save the <emphasis>passthrough</emphasis> flag for DVD 1203 drives without an attached medium</para> 1204 </listitem> 1205 1206 <listitem> 1207 <para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state 1208 where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para> 1209 </listitem> 1210 1211 <listitem> 1212 <para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches 1213 (bug #9194)</para> 1214 </listitem> 1215 1216 <listitem> 1217 <para>Storage: fixed errors with snapshots when using QCOW or QED disk images 1218 (bug #12144)</para> 1219 </listitem> 1220 1221 <listitem> 1222 <para>Storage: fix for newer Linux kernels not detecting a hard disk as SSD 1223 when using the IDE or SATA controller (bug #12025)</para> 1224 </listitem> 1225 1226 <listitem> 1227 <para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty 1228 to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para> 1229 </listitem> 1230 1231 <listitem> 1232 <para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could result in lost medium attachments 1233 (4.2.18 regression, bug #11750)</para> 1234 </listitem> 1235 1236 <listitem> 1237 <para>Shared Clipboard: fixed potential SEGFAULT when 1238 working with UTF8 and UTF16 content (Mac OS X hosts only)</para> 1239 </listitem> 1240 1241 <listitem> 1242 <para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple 1243 VMs</para> 1244 </listitem> 1245 1246 <listitem> 1247 <para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with 1248 special characters</para> 1249 </listitem> 1250 1251 <listitem> 1252 <para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para> 1253 </listitem> 1254 1255 <listitem> 1256 <para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child 1257 snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, 1258 their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM 1259 config corruption</para> 1260 </listitem> 1261 1262 <listitem> 1263 <para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot 1264 as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para> 1265 </listitem> 1266 1267 <listitem> 1268 <para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events 1269 (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused 1270 errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice 1271 (bug #12379)</para> 1272 </listitem> 1273 1274 <listitem> 1275 <para>Mac OS X hosts: support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para> 1276 </listitem> 1277 1278 <listitem> 1279 <para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for 1280 Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)</para> 1281 </listitem> 1282 1283 <listitem> 1284 <para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated 1285 StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para> 1286 </listitem> 1287 1288 <listitem> 1289 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was 1290 not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing 1291 Mavericks hosts from shutting (bug #12241)</para> 1292 </listitem> 1293 1294 <listitem> 1295 <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.13 compile fix (bug #12358)</para> 1296 </listitem> 1297 1298 <listitem> 1299 <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.12 compile fix (bug #12083)</para> 1300 </listitem> 1301 1302 <listitem> 1303 <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.11 fix for shared folders (bugs #11946, #12128)</para> 1304 </listitem> 1305 1306 <listitem> 1307 <para>Linux Additions: compile fix for SLES11 SP3</para> 1308 </listitem> 1309 1310 <listitem> 1311 <para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing 1312 (bug #12166)</para> 1313 </listitem> 1314 1315 <listitem> 1316 <para>Linux Additions: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on 1317 OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para> 1318 </listitem> 1319 1320 <listitem> 1321 <para>Linux Additions: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1 1322 (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para> 1323 </listitem> 1324 1325 <listitem> 1326 <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by 1327 <emphasis>WTSQuerySessionInformation()</emphasis> 1328 on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para> 1329 </listitem> 1330 1331 <listitem> 1332 <para>Windows Additions: multimonitor resize fixes</para> 1333 </listitem> 1334 1335 <listitem> 1336 <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, 1337 thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para> 1338 </listitem> 1339 1340 <listitem> 1341 <para>Guest additions/3D: fix an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319) 1342 </para> 1343 </listitem> 1344 1345 </itemizedlist> 1346 </sect1> 1347 1348 <sect1> 356 1349 <title>Version 4.2.18 (2013-09-06)</title> 357 1350 … … 747 1740 <listitem> 748 1741 <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless 749 screens were represented by full screen windows</para>1742 screens were represented by full screen windows</para> 750 1743 </listitem> 751 1744 … … 757 1750 <listitem> 758 1751 <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should 759 have correct content in seamless /fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>1752 have correct content in seamless / full screen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para> 760 1753 </listitem> 761 1754 … … 1399 2392 1400 2393 <listitem> 1401 <para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering full screen-mode2394 <para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering full screen mode 1402 2395 on Win host (bug #11051)</para> 1403 2396 </listitem> … … 4770 5763 4771 5764 <listitem> 4772 <para>VGA: se rveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>5765 <para>VGA: several small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para> 4773 5766 </listitem> 4774 5767 … … 8978 9971 8979 9972 <listitem> 8980 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Net ware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>9973 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell NetWare 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para> 8981 9974 </listitem> 8982 9975
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