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@@ -36,5 +36,55 @@
- Version 6.1.x (2019-xx-xx)
+ Version 6.1.0 (2019-xx-xx)
+
+
+ This is a major update. The following major new features were
+ added:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
+ Cloud Infrastructure
+
+
+
+
+
+ Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
+ Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
+ virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
+ export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
+ "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud
+ images
+
+
+
+
+
+ Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
+ on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
+ Broadwell), so far tested only with guest running VirtualBox
+
+
+
+
+
+ Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
+ old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
+
+
+
+
+
+ Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
+ (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via
+ VBoxManage (disabled by default).
+
+
+
+
@@ -46,30 +96,12 @@
- Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and
- optical drives (including boot support in BIOS)
-
-
-
-
-
- Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive case
-
-
-
-
-
- ACPI: Report NVMe controller
-
-
-
-
-
- VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility
-
-
-
-
-
- VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures
+ Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
+ a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
+
+
+
+
+
+ Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
@@ -85,58 +117,92 @@
- Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information
-
-
-
-
-
- Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete
- (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough
-
-
-
-
-
- Windows host: When possible, distinguish devices by port number; helps
- when multiple otherwise identical devices are connected
-
-
-
-
-
- EFI: Added support for booting from APFS
-
-
-
-
-
- EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths
- created by OS X
-
-
-
-
-
- EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again
-
-
-
-
-
- Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Version 6.1.0_RC1 (2019-11-22)
-
-
- In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
-
-
-
+ GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
+ groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
+ has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
+ to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
+ for selected VM attributes, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly byi
+ clicking corresponding hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Details pane provides more complete information
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
+ and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
+ of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
+ via Virtual Media Manager
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images
+ and allowing to select using the file picker)
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
+ allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
+ by using drag and drop
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling arbitrary keyboard input to guests,
+ including multimedia keys
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility
+ functionality was enabled
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
+
+
+
+
+
+ GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling
+
+
@@ -149,24 +215,5 @@
- GUI: Few usability related fixes for export appliance wizard
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility
- functionality was enabled
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Soft keyboard visual improvements, and fix crash for first use
+ GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
@@ -181,20 +228,106 @@
- GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images
- and allowing to select using the file picker)
-
-
-
-
-
- Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few
- new manual pages (more to come later)
-
-
-
-
-
- Virtualization core: Improvements for nested hardware-virtualization
- on Intel CPUs
+ GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
+
+
+
+
+
+ Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Graphics: Additional texture format support on Windows host
+
+
+
+
+
+ Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
+
+
+
+
+ Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
+ device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
+ is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
+
+
+
+
+ vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
+ to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
+ the need for support on the host
+
+
+
+
+ vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host
+
+
+
+
+
+ Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and
+ optical drives (including boot support in BIOS)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive crash
+
+
+
+
+
+ USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation
+
+
+
+
+
+ USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port
+ in a system
+
+
+
+
+
+ NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options
+
+
+
+
+
+ NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted
+ incoming connections (port forwarding)
+
+
+
+
+
+ PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only
+
+
+
+
+
+ Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is
+ in saved state
+
+
+
+
+
+ ACPI: Report NVMe controller
+
+
+
+
+
+ VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility
@@ -217,25 +350,43 @@
- USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation
-
-
-
-
-
- USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port
- in a system
-
-
-
-
-
- NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted
- incoming connections (port forwarding)
-
-
-
-
-
- PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only
+ VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures
+
+
+
+
+
+ VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting
+ a cloud instance
+
+
+
+
+
+ VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
+ multiple source files/directories to a target directory
+
+
+
+
+ Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
+ when renaming guest files
+
+
+
+
+ VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW
+ virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information
+
+
+
+
+ API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
+
+
+
+
+
+ Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
+ for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default)
@@ -255,12 +406,19 @@
- VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW
- virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information
-
-
-
-
- Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
- for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default)
+
+ macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information
+
+
+
+
+
+ Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete
+ (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough
@@ -277,4 +435,12 @@
+ Windows host: When possible, distinguish USB devices by port number; helps
+ with accurate capturing of devices when multiple otherwise identical devices
+ are connected
+
+
+
+
+
Windows Guest Additions: Many fixes for drawing problems in the
driver for VBoxSVGA
@@ -295,150 +461,14 @@
-
-
-
-
- Version 6.1.0_BETA2 (2019-10-23)
-
-
- In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Virtualization core: Improvements for nested hardware-virtualization
- on Intel CPUs, Windows works now on outer VM (needs beta VirtualBox)
-
-
-
-
-
- Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
- a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
-
-
-
-
-
- Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Media enumeration fixes
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Details pane fixes
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Added multimedia keys to soft keyboard and other improvements
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
-
-
-
-
-
- Cloud: More flexibility in VM export and import to Oracle Cloud
- Infrastructure, add free-form tags to cloud images
-
-
-
-
-
- Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0)
-
-
-
-
-
- Graphics: Additional texture format supportd on Windows host
-
-
-
-
-
- Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
-
-
-
-
-
- NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options
-
-
-
-
-
- API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
-
-
-
-
-
- Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is
- in saved state
-
-
-
-
- vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host
-
-
-
-
-
- VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting
- a cloud instance
-
-
-
-
-
- VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
- multiple source files/directories to a target directory
-
-
-
-
-
- macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
-
-
-
-
-
- Windows host: Improve USB device capturing accuracy
+
+
+ Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver
+
+
+
+
+
+ Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few
+ new manual pages (more to come later)
@@ -451,142 +481,26 @@
+
+
+ EFI: Added support for booting from APFS
+
+
+
+
+
+ EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths
+ created by OS X
+
+
+
+
+
+ EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again
+
+
+
-
- Version 6.1.0_BETA1 (2019-09-12)
-
-
- This is a major update. The following major new features were
- added:
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
- Cloud Infrastructure
-
-
-
-
-
- Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
- Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
- virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
- export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
- "paravirtialized"
-
-
-
-
-
- Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
- on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
- Broadwell)
-
-
-
-
-
- Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
- old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
-
-
-
-
-
- Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
- (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via
- VBoxManage (disabled by default).
-
-
-
-
-
-
- In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
-
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
- groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
- has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
- to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
- for certain VM attributes which we decided as the most
- important, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly by clicking corresponding
- hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
- and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
- of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
- via Virtual Media Manager
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
- allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
- by using drag and drop
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling keyboard inputs to guests
-
-
-
-
-
- GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
-
-
-
-
- Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
- device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
- is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
-
-
-
-
- vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
- to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
- the need for support on the host
-
-
-
-
- Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
- when renaming guest files
-
-
-
-
-
-
-