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70<chapter>
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72<!-- HACK ALERT! Seems we must have a single top level element for xi:include to work.
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74 <sect1>
75
76 <title>Version 7.0.X (date tbd)</title>
77
78 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
79 added:</para>
80
81 <itemizedlist>
82
83 <listitem>
84 <para>VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is used (bug #17961)</para>
85 </listitem>
86
87 <listitem>
88 <para>Puel: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption</para>
89 </listitem>
90
91 <listitem>
92 <para>virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)</para>
93 </listitem>
94
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Main: Introduced virtualization platform support to the public API to better abstract
97 platform-specific details. Please consult the SDK manual for more information</para>
98 </listitem>
99
100 <listitem>
101 <para>Guest Control: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points (drive letters on Windows)
102 via IGuestSession::mountPoints. Requires 7.1 Guest Additions</para>
103 </listitem>
104
105 <listitem>
106 <para>Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers;
107 this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode</para>
108 </listitem>
109
110 <listitem>
111 <para>Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for
112 the user and admin / root accounts</para>
113 </listitem>
114
115 <listitem>
116 <para>VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount"
117 Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions</para>
118 </listitem>
119
120 <listitem>
121 <para>VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility</para>
122 </listitem>
123
124 <listitem>
125 <para>Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will
126 be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3</para>
127 </listitem>
128
129 </itemizedlist>
130 </sect1>
131
132 <sect1>
133
134 <title>Version 7.0.6 (2023-01-17)</title>
135
136 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
137 added:</para>
138
139 <itemizedlist>
140
141 <listitem>
142 <para>VMM: Fixed guru running the FreeBSD loader on older Intel CPUs
143 without unrestricted guest support (bug #21332)</para>
144 </listitem>
145
146 <listitem>
147 <para>GUI: Fixed virtual machines grouping when VM was created or
148 modified in command line (bugs #11500, #20933)</para>
149 </listitem>
150
151 <listitem>
152 <para>GUI: Introduced generic changes in settings dialogs</para>
153 </listitem>
154
155 <listitem>
156 <para>VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state
157 (bug #21172)</para>
158 </listitem>
159
160 <listitem>
161 <para>Storage: Added support for increasing the size of the following
162 VMDK image variants: monolithicFlat, monolithicSparse, twoGbMaxExtentSparse,
163 twoGbMaxExtentFlat</para>
164 </listitem>
165
166 <listitem>
167 <para>VBoxManage: Added missing --directory switch for guestcontrol mktemp command</para>
168 </listitem>
169
170 <listitem>
171 <para>Mouse Integration: Guest was provided with extended host mouse state (bug #21139)</para>
172 </listitem>
173
174 <listitem>
175 <para>DnD: Introduced generic improvements</para>
176 </listitem>
177
178 <listitem>
179 <para>Guest Control: Fixed handling creation mode for temporary directories
180 (bug #21394)</para>
181 </listitem>
182
183 <listitem>
184 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building UEK7 kernel on
185 Oracle Linux 8</para>
186 </listitem>
187
188 <listitem>
189 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel</para>
190 </listitem>
191
192 <listitem>
193 <para>Windows Host: Fixed support for VM autostart (bug#21349)</para>
194 </listitem>
195
196 <listitem>
197 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.2 for vboxvideo</para>
198 </listitem>
199
200 <listitem>
201 <para>Audio: The "--audio" option in VBoxManage is now marked as
202 deprecated; please use "--audio-driver" and "--audio-enabled"
203 instead. This will allow more flexibility when changing the driver
204 and/or controlling the audio functionality</para>
205 </listitem>
206
207 </itemizedlist>
208 </sect1>
209
210 <sect1>
211
212 <title>Version 7.0.4 (2022-11-18)</title>
213
214 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
215 added:</para>
216
217 <itemizedlist>
218
219 <listitem>
220 <para>VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)</para>
221 </listitem>
222
223 <listitem>
224 <para>VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)</para>
225 </listitem>
226
227 <listitem>
228 <para>VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)</para>
229 </listitem>
230
231 <listitem>
232 <para>VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)</para>
233 </listitem>
234
235 <listitem>
236 <para>GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager</para>
237 </listitem>
238
239 <listitem>
240 <para>GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager</para>
241 </listitem>
242
243 <listitem>
244 <para>GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font</para>
245 </listitem>
246
247 <listitem>
248 <para>GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard
249 is cancelled (bug #21244)</para>
250 </listitem>
251
252 <listitem>
253 <para>GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.</para>
254 </listitem>
255
256 <listitem>
257 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)</para>
258 </listitem>
259
260 <listitem>
261 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)</para>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3
266 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)</para>
267 </listitem>
268
269 <listitem>
270 <para>Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)</para>
271 </listitem>
272
273 <listitem>
274 <para>VBoxManage: Fixed regression when 'createmedium disk --variant RawDisk' command resulted
275 in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)</para>
276 </listitem>
277
278 <listitem>
279 <para>Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor
280 VM configuration (bug #21137)</para>
281 </listitem>
282
283 <listitem>
284 <para>Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux
285 Guest Additions installation</para>
286 </listitem>
287
288 <listitem>
289 <para>Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)</para>
290 </listitem>
291
292 <listitem>
293 <para>3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)</para>
294 </listitem>
295
296 <listitem>
297 <para>Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts</para>
298 </listitem>
299
300 <listitem>
301 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for
302 RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272, #21258)</para>
303 </listitem>
304
305 <listitem>
306 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels</para>
307 </listitem>
308
309 <listitem>
310 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on
311 system shutdown</para>
312 </listitem>
313
314 </itemizedlist>
315 </sect1>
316
317 <sect1>
318
319 <title>Version 7.0.2 (2022-10-20)</title>
320
321 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
322 added:</para>
323
324 <itemizedlist>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS
328 Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1
329 or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur</para>
330 </listitem>
331
332 <listitem>
333 <para>Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC could become unresponsive if Extension Pack
334 was not installed (bug #21167)</para>
335 </listitem>
336
337 <listitem>
338 <para>macOS hosts: Added workaround for a bug in the Hypervisor framework on Catalina causing
339 VERR_NEM_MAP_PAGES_FAILED errors when starting a VM. (bug #21128)</para>
340 </listitem>
341
342 <listitem>
343 <para>macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking, this is considered a bit
344 experimental still</para>
345 </listitem>
346
347 <listitem>
348 <para>macOS hosts: Fixed VM crash when the guest tries to access a microphone or webcam</para>
349 </listitem>
350
351 <listitem>
352 <para>Windows host: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when only 4Kb of host
353 clipboard buffer was accessible to guest (bug #21149)</para>
354 </listitem>
355
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.1</para>
358 </listitem>
359
360 <listitem>
361 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient seamless service
362 caused a crash of some X11 applications (bug #21132)</para>
363 </listitem>
364
365 <listitem>
366 <para>Windows hosts: GUI: Fixed missing Qt libraries for vista style and sql driver (bug #21155)</para>
367 </listitem>
368
369 <listitem>
370 <para>GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved (bug #21156)</para>
371 </listitem>
372
373 </itemizedlist>
374 </sect1>
375
376 <sect1>
377
378 <title>Version 7.0.0 (2022-10-10)</title>
379
380 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features were added:</para>
381
382 <itemizedlist>
383
384 <listitem>
385 <para>Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs
386 and saved states (CLI only for now)</para>
387 </listitem>
388
389 <listitem>
390 <para>OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled
391 as local VMs</para>
392 </listitem>
393
394 <listitem>
395 <para>OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as
396 it is done for Host-only and NAT networks</para>
397 </listitem>
398
399 <listitem>
400 <para>GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance statistics
401 (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests</para>
402 </listitem>
403
404 <listitem>
405 <para>GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended
406 guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow</para>
407 </listitem>
408
409 <listitem>
410 <para>GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated
411 and searched</para>
412 </listitem>
413
414 <listitem>
415 <para>GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error
416 reporting around the GUI</para>
417 </listitem>
418
419 <listitem>
420 <para>GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS
421 use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.</para>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>GUI: Large icon update.</para>
426 </listitem>
427
428 <listitem>
429 <para>Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.
430 Opus is no longer being used.</para>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
435 without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
436 option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
437 </listitem>
438
439 <listitem>
440 <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
441 of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
442 </listitem>
443
444 <listitem>
445 <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
446 guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
447 </listitem>
448
449 <listitem>
450 <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
451 make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
452 </listitem>
453
454 <listitem>
455 <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
456 in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
457 in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
458 </listitem>
459
460 <listitem>
461 <para>macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on
462 the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now. At the moment
463 the implementation lacks "Internal Networking" functionality. This will be
464 provided at a later date.</para>
465 </listitem>
466
467 <listitem>
468 <para>macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with
469 an Apple silicon CPU. This is unsupported work in progress, and is known
470 to have very modest performance.</para>
471 </listitem>
472
473 <listitem>
474 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality,
475 added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments</para>
476 </listitem>
477
478 <listitem>
479 <para>Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK
480 on non Windows hosts)</para>
481 </listitem>
482
483 <listitem>
484 <para>Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)</para>
485 </listitem>
486
487 <listitem>
488 <para>Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.0 devices</para>
489 </listitem>
490
491 <listitem>
492 <para>Devices: The EHCI and XHCI USB controller devices are now part of the
493 open source base package</para>
494 </listitem>
495
496 <listitem>
497 <para>EFI: Added support for Secure Boot</para>
498 </listitem>
499
500 <listitem>
501 <para>Debugging: Added experimental support for guest debugging through
502 GDB and highly experimental support for guest debugging through KD/WinDbg</para>
503 </listitem>
504
505 </itemizedlist>
506
507 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
508
509 <itemizedlist>
510
511 <listitem>
512 <para>OCI: Cloud networking functionality is enhanced for local VMs, now local VMs could
513 be connected to cloud networking</para>
514 </listitem>
515
516 <listitem>
517 <para>GUI: Improved behavior of the virtual machine list and various VM related tools in case
518 multiple items are selected</para>
519 </listitem>
520
521 <listitem>
522 <para>GUI: On available platforms, added a new option to disable the host's screensaver</para>
523 </listitem>
524
525 <listitem>
526 <para>GUI: Reworked global preferences, machine settings and the wizards to improve stability
527 and usability</para>
528 </listitem>
529
530 <listitem>
531 <para>GUI: Improving mouse handling in multi-monitor case on X11 platform</para>
532 </listitem>
533
534 <listitem>
535 <para>GUI: Medium enumeration engine was reworked to improve permormance</para>
536 </listitem>
537
538 <listitem>
539 <para>GUI: NAT Network stuff was moved from global preferences to global Network Manager tool</para>
540 </listitem>
541
542 <listitem>
543 <para>GUI: Extension Pack Manager was moved from global preferences to global tools</para>
544 </listitem>
545
546 <listitem>
547 <para>GUI: Improved overall accessibility</para>
548 </listitem>
549
550 <listitem>
551 <para>GUI: Migrating to recent Qt versions.</para>
552 </listitem>
553
554 </itemizedlist>
555 </sect1>
556
557</chapter>
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