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    7272<sect1>
    7373
    74     <title>Version 7.0.0_XXX (2022-XX-XX)</title>
     74    <title>Version 7.0.0_BETA1 (2022-08-25)</title>
    7575
    7676    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    … …  
    8484      </listitem>
    8585
    86     </itemizedlist>
    87   </sect1>
     86      <listitem>
     87        <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
     88          without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
     89          option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
     90      </listitem>
    8891
    89   <sect1>
     92      <listitem>
     93        <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
     94          of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
     95      </listitem>
    9096
    91     <title>Version 7.0.0_ALPHA2 (2022-08-05)</title>
     97      <listitem>
     98        <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
     99          guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
     100      </listitem>
    92101
    93     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    94       added:</para>
     102      <listitem>
     103        <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
     104          make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
     105      </listitem>
    95106
    96     <itemizedlist>
     107      <listitem>
     108        <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
     109          in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
     110          in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
     111      </listitem>
    97112
    98113      <listitem>
    … …  
    126141  </sect1>
    127142
    128   <sect1>
    129 
    130     <title>Version 7.0.0_ALPHA1 (2022-05-18)</title>
    131 
    132     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    133       added:</para>
    134 
    135     <itemizedlist>
    136 
    137       <listitem>
    138         <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
    139           without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
    140           option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
    141       </listitem>
    142 
    143       <listitem>
    144         <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
    145           of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
    146       </listitem>
    147 
    148       <listitem>
    149         <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
    150           guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
    151       </listitem>
    152 
    153       <listitem>
    154         <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
    155           make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
    156       </listitem>
    157 
    158       <listitem>
    159         <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
    160           in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
    161           in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
    162       </listitem>
    163 
    164     </itemizedlist>
    165   </sect1>
    166 
    167   <sect1>
    168 
    169     <title>Version 6.1.4 (2020-02-19)</title>
    170 
    171     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    172       added:</para>
    173 
    174     <itemizedlist>
    175       <listitem>
    176         <para>Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction
    177         causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression;
    178         bug #19171)</para>
    179       </listitem>
    180 
    181       <listitem>
    182         <para>Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot
    183           after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)</para>
    184       </listitem>
    185 
    186       <listitem>
    187         <para>GUI: recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt
    188           translation tags</para>
    189       </listitem>
    190 
    191       <listitem>
    192         <para>USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI</para>
    193       </listitem>
    194 
    195       <listitem>
    196         <para>Serial: Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data
    197           when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)</para>
    198       </listitem>
    199 
    200       <listitem>
    201         <para>Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on
    202           Windows host</para>
    203       </listitem>
    204 
    205       <listitem>
    206         <para>VBoxManage: Restore old --clipboard option for modifyvm
    207           command</para>
    208       </listitem>
    209 
    210       <listitem>
    211         <para>macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed
    212           entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also
    213           required moving VirtualBoxVM executable</para>
    214       </listitem>
    215 
    216       <listitem>
    217         <para>macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4</para>
    218       </listitem>
    219 
    220       <listitem>
    221         <para>Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer</para>
    222       </listitem>
    223 
    224       <listitem>
    225         <para>Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX
    226           append semantic (bug #19003)</para>
    227       </listitem>
    228 
    229       <listitem>
    230         <para>Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V,
    231           at the expense of performance</para>
    232       </listitem>
    233 
    234       <listitem>
    235         <para>Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)</para>
    236       </listitem>
    237 
    238       <listitem>
    239         <para>Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of
    240           images</para>
    241       </listitem>
    242 
    243       <listitem>
    244         <para>BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready</para>
    245       </listitem>
    246 
    247       <listitem>
    248         <para>BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)</para>
    249       </listitem>
    250 
    251       <listitem>
    252         <para>VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers</para>
    253       </listitem>
    254 
    255     </itemizedlist>
    256   </sect1>
    257 
    258   <sect1>
    259     <title>Version 6.1.2 (2020-01-14)</title>
    260 
    261     <para>
    262       This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    263       added:
    264     </para>
    265 
    266     <itemizedlist>
    267 
    268       <listitem>
    269         <para>Virtualization core: Fixed performance issue observed with
    270           Windows XP guests on AMD hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #19152)</para>
    271       </listitem>
    272 
    273       <listitem>
    274         <para>Virtualization core: Consistent IBRS/IBPB CPUID feature
    275           reporting, avoids crash of NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer (bug
    276           #19146)</para>
    277       </listitem>
    278 
    279       <listitem>
    280         <para>GUI: Fixed updating of runtime info</para>
    281       </listitem>
    282 
    283       <listitem>
    284         <para>GUI: In Display settings, do not show "2D video acceleration"
    285           checkbox if it is meaningless for the selected graphics
    286           adapter</para>
    287       </listitem>
    288 
    289       <listitem>
    290         <para>Audio: Fixed audio input handling when VRDE is enabled</para>
    291       </listitem>
    292 
    293       <listitem>
    294         <para>Audio: Fixed crash in the HDA emulation when using multi-speaker
    295           configurations</para>
    296       </listitem>
    297 
    298       <listitem>
    299         <para>Storage: Fixed use of encrypted disks with snapshots involved
    300           (6.1.0 regression; bug #19160)</para>
    301       </listitem>
    302 
    303       <listitem>
    304         <para>Storage: Improve performance of virtio-scsi</para>
    305       </listitem>
    306 
    307       <listitem>
    308         <para>Storage: Read-only support for compressed clusters in QCOW2
    309           images</para>
    310       </listitem>
    311 
    312       <listitem>
    313         <para>Windows installer: Include unintentionally dropped vbox-img.exe
    314           utility again</para>
    315       </listitem>
    316 
    317       <listitem>
    318         <para>Windows host: When installing or removing an extension pack,
    319           retry the sometimes failing directory renaming (usually caused by
    320           anti-virus software accessing the directory)</para>
    321       </listitem>
    322 
    323       <listitem>
    324         <para>Linux host: Support Linux 5.5 (guest additions not yet)</para>
    325       </listitem>
    326 
    327       <listitem>
    328         <para>Windows guest: Accelerate 2D video decoding (scaling and color
    329           space conversion) if the VM is configured to use VBoxSVGA with 3D
    330           enabled</para>
    331       </listitem>
    332 
    333       <listitem>
    334         <para>Windows guest: Fix guest additions installer to upgrade the mouse
    335           filter driver reliably</para>
    336       </listitem>
    337 
    338       <listitem>
    339         <para>Windows guest: When uninstalling older Guest Additions with old
    340           3D support enabled try restoring original Direct3D files</para>
    341       </listitem>
    342 
    343       <listitem>
    344         <para>Linux guest: Improve resize and multi-monitor handling for VMs
    345           using VMSVGA (known remaining issue: do not disable a monitor
    346           "in the middle", causes confusion)</para>
    347       </listitem>
    348 
    349     </itemizedlist>
    350   </sect1>
    351 
    352   <sect1>
    353     <title>Version 6.1.0 (2019-12-10)</title>
    354 
    355     <para>
    356       This is a major update. The following major new features were
    357       added:
    358     </para>
    359 
    360     <itemizedlist>
    361 
    362       <listitem>
    363         <para>
    364           Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
    365           Cloud Infrastructure
    366         </para>
    367       </listitem>
    368 
    369       <listitem>
    370         <para>
    371           Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
    372           Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
    373           virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
    374           export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
    375           "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud
    376           images
    377         </para>
    378       </listitem>
    379 
    380       <listitem>
    381         <para>
    382           Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
    383           on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
    384           Broadwell), so far tested only with guest running VirtualBox
    385         </para>
    386       </listitem>
    387 
    388       <listitem>
    389         <para>
    390           Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
    391           old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
    392         </para>
    393       </listitem>
    394 
    395     </itemizedlist>
    396 
    397     <para>
    398         In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
    399     </para>
    400 
    401     <itemizedlist>
    402 
    403       <listitem>
    404         <para>
    405           Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
    406           a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
    407         </para>
    408       </listitem>
    409 
    410       <listitem>
    411         <para>
    412           Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
    413         </para>
    414       </listitem>
    415 
    416       <listitem>
    417         <para>
    418           Appliance and Cloud Import: Add field for defining firmware type (not
    419           part of OVF spec and thus manual in the Appliance case, for OCI it is
    420           automatically taken from the instance information)
    421         </para>
    422       </listitem>
    423 
    424       <listitem>
    425         <para>
    426             GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
    427         </para>
    428       </listitem>
    429 
    430       <listitem>
    431         <para>
    432           GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
    433           groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
    434           has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
    435           to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
    436         </para>
    437       </listitem>
    438 
    439       <listitem>
    440         <para>
    441           GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
    442           for selected VM attributes, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly byi
    443           clicking corresponding hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
    444         </para>
    445       </listitem>
    446 
    447       <listitem>
    448         <para>
    449           GUI: Details pane provides more complete information
    450         </para>
    451       </listitem>
    452 
    453       <listitem>
    454         <para>
    455           GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
    456           and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
    457           of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
    458           via Virtual Media Manager
    459         </para>
    460       </listitem>
    461 
    462       <listitem>
    463         <para>
    464           GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images
    465           and allowing to select using the file picker)
    466         </para>
    467       </listitem>
    468 
    469       <listitem>
    470         <para>
    471           GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
    472           allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
    473           by using drag and drop
    474         </para>
    475       </listitem>
    476 
    477       <listitem>
    478         <para>
    479           GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
    480         </para>
    481       </listitem>
    482 
    483       <listitem>
    484         <para>
    485           GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling arbitrary keyboard input to guests,
    486           including multimedia keys
    487         </para>
    488       </listitem>
    489 
    490       <listitem>
    491         <para>
    492           GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility
    493           functionality was enabled
    494         </para>
    495       </listitem>
    496 
    497       <listitem>
    498         <para>
    499           GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator
    500         </para>
    501       </listitem>
    502 
    503       <listitem>
    504         <para>
    505           GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
    506         </para>
    507       </listitem>
    508 
    509       <listitem>
    510         <para>
    511           GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling
    512         </para>
    513       </listitem>
    514 
    515       <listitem>
    516         <para>
    517           GUI: Some issues related to mouse integration cursor scaling were
    518           addressed (bug #14366), more to go
    519         </para>
    520       </listitem>
    521 
    522       <listitem>
    523         <para>
    524           GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
    525         </para>
    526       </listitem>
    527 
    528       <listitem>
    529         <para>
    530           GUI: Added the missing restriction options for disabling new
    531           functionality such as the VISO creator
    532         </para>
    533       </listitem>
    534 
    535       <listitem>
    536         <para>
    537           GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
    538         </para>
    539       </listitem>
    540 
    541       <listitem>
    542         <para>
    543           Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0)
    544         </para>
    545       </listitem>
    546 
    547       <listitem>
    548         <para>
    549           Graphics: Additional texture format support on Windows host
    550         </para>
    551       </listitem>
    552 
    553       <listitem>
    554         <para>
    555           Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
    556         </para>
    557       </listitem>
    558 
    559       <listitem>
    560         <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
    561           device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
    562           is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
    563         </para>
    564       </listitem>
    565 
    566       <listitem>
    567         <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
    568           to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
    569           the need for support on the host
    570         </para>
    571       </listitem>
    572 
    573       <listitem>
    574         <para>vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host
    575         </para>
    576       </listitem>
    577 
    578       <listitem>
    579         <para>
    580           Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and
    581           optical drives (including boot support in BIOS)
    582         </para>
    583       </listitem>
    584 
    585       <listitem>
    586         <para>
    587           Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive crash
    588         </para>
    589       </listitem>
    590 
    591       <listitem>
    592         <para>
    593           USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation
    594         </para>
    595       </listitem>
    596 
    597       <listitem>
    598         <para>
    599           USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port
    600           in a system
    601         </para>
    602       </listitem>
    603 
    604       <listitem>
    605         <para>
    606           NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options
    607         </para>
    608       </listitem>
    609 
    610       <listitem>
    611         <para>
    612           NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted
    613           incoming connections (port forwarding)
    614         </para>
    615       </listitem>
    616 
    617       <listitem>
    618         <para>
    619           PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only
    620         </para>
    621       </listitem>
    622 
    623       <listitem>
    624         <para>
    625           Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is
    626           in saved state
    627         </para>
    628       </listitem>
    629 
    630       <listitem>
    631         <para>
    632           ACPI: Report NVMe controller
    633         </para>
    634       </listitem>
    635 
    636       <listitem>
    637         <para>
    638           VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility
    639         </para>
    640       </listitem>
    641 
    642       <listitem>
    643         <para>
    644           VBoxSVGA/VMSVGA: Support YUV2 and related texture formats with hosts
    645           using OpenGL (macOS and Linux), which accelerates video playback
    646           when 3D is enabled by delegating the color space conversion to the
    647           host GPU
    648         </para>
    649       </listitem>
    650 
    651       <listitem>
    652         <para>
    653           VBoxSVGA/VMSVGA: Several drawing fixes for the 3D case
    654         </para>
    655       </listitem>
    656 
    657       <listitem>
    658         <para>
    659           VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures
    660         </para>
    661       </listitem>
    662 
    663       <listitem>
    664         <para>
    665           VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting
    666           a cloud instance
    667         </para>
    668       </listitem>
    669 
    670       <listitem>
    671         <para>
    672           VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
    673           multiple source files/directories to a target directory
    674         </para>
    675       </listitem>
    676 
    677       <listitem>
    678         <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
    679           when renaming guest files
    680         </para>
    681       </listitem>
    682 
    683       <listitem>
    684         <para>VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW
    685         virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information</para>
    686       </listitem>
    687 
    688       <listitem>
    689         <para>
    690           API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
    691         </para>
    692       </listitem>
    693 
    694       <listitem>
    695         <para>
    696           Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
    697           for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default)
    698         </para>
    699       </listitem>
    700 
    701       <listitem>
    702         <para>
    703           SMBIOS: Store system UUID in little endian format which is the
    704           default for new VMs, while existing VMs stick to the old VirtualBox
    705           behavior of storing them in big endian format for backwards
    706           compatibility to avoid breaking the activation status of Windows VMs
    707         </para>
    708       </listitem>
    709 
    710       <listitem>
    711         <para>VBoxSDL frontend: Fixed running on Windows hosts</para>
    712       </listitem>
    713 
    714       <listitem>
    715         <para>
    716           macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
    717         </para>
    718       </listitem>
    719 
    720       <listitem>
    721         <para>
    722           Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information
    723         </para>
    724       </listitem>
    725 
    726       <listitem>
    727         <para>
    728           Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete
    729           (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough
    730         </para>
    731       </listitem>
    732 
    733       <listitem>
    734         <para>Linux host and guest: Support Linux 5.4 (bug #18945)</para>
    735       </listitem>
    736 
    737       <listitem>
    738         <para>Linux host and guest: Force disabling of kernel module signing
    739         during build (user can do it afterwards)</para>
    740       </listitem>
    741 
    742       <listitem>
    743         <para>
    744           Windows host: When possible, distinguish USB devices by port number; helps
    745           with accurate capturing of devices when multiple otherwise identical devices
    746           are connected
    747         </para>
    748       </listitem>
    749 
    750       <listitem>
    751         <para>
    752           Windows Guest Additions: Many fixes for drawing problems in the
    753           driver for VBoxSVGA
    754         </para>
    755       </listitem>
    756 
    757       <listitem>
    758         <para>
    759           Windows Guest Additions: Fixes for legacy VBoxVGA adapter, restore
    760           previously working cases
    761         </para>
    762       </listitem>
    763 
    764       <listitem>
    765         <para>
    766           Windows Guest Additions: Restore VHWA functionality for VBoxSVGA
    767         </para>
    768       </listitem>
    769 
    770       <listitem>
    771         <para>
    772           Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver
    773         </para>
    774       </listitem>
    775 
    776       <listitem>
    777         <para>
    778           Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few
    779           new manual pages (more to come later)
    780         </para>
    781       </listitem>
    782 
    783       <listitem>
    784         <para>
    785           EFI: Switch to newer firmware code base and add NVRAM support,
    786           should improve compatibility with OSes significantly
    787         </para>
    788       </listitem>
    789 
    790       <listitem>
    791         <para>
    792           EFI: Added support for booting from APFS
    793         </para>
    794       </listitem>
    795 
    796       <listitem>
    797         <para>
    798           EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths
    799           created by OS X
    800         </para>
    801       </listitem>
    802 
    803       <listitem>
    804         <para>
    805           EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again
    806         </para>
    807       </listitem>
    808 
    809     </itemizedlist>
    810 
    811   </sect1>
    812 
    813143</chapter>
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