This section summarizes the changes between Oracle VirtualBox versions. Note that this change log is not exhaustive and not all changes are listed.
Oracle VirtualBox version numbers consist of three numbers separated by dots where the first and second number represent the major version and the third number the minor version. Minor version numbers of official releases are always even. An odd minor version number represents an internal development or test build. In addition, each build contains a revision number.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed issue when VM clock went backwards in rare circumstances (bug #22334)
GUI: Fixed issue when accelerated cursor image was not displayed correctly (bug #22096)
DevVirtioSCSI: Fixed issue with restoring saved state
Graphics: Fixed issue when assertion was triggered on restoring VM state if VMSVGA graphics adapter was used without 3D acceleration (bug #21955)
Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC was crashing on saving machine config through VirtualBox web service (bug #22259)
Main: Fixed issue when wireless network adapters could not be discovered on modern Linux distributions (bug #22362)
Main: Fixed issue when deleting running VM snapshot was leaving the .sav file on disk (bug #21345)
NAT: Fixed connectivity loss on Windows host (bug #22364)
VBoxManage: Updated User Manual to correct the 'VBoxManage modifyvm' invocation for configuring a VM to use host-only networking (bug #22158)
VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set disk bandwidth with 'VBoxManage bandwidthctl' command (bug #22328)
Windows installer: Automatically load the support driver after a successful installation (bug #22292)
Linux Host Installer: Fixed issue which sometimes resulted in installation failure due to incorrect check whether previous VirtualBox installation is running or not
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient could crash in XWayland guest (bug #22345)
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue which resulted in cursor image corruption when VM was using VBoxVGA graphics adapter
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when installation could fail on the system which does not have X11 libraries installed
Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.14
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.7 kernel
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 9.4 kernel, (bug #22277)
Linux Guest Additions: Improved 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' check
Windows installer: Various bugfixes for the new installation code
Windows installer: Implemented a new fatal error dialog with the ability to open the installer log file directly
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed mouse driver installation on Vista guests
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed uninstallation integrity issues (bug #22290)
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed driver installation error ERROR_AUTHENTICODE_TRUST_NOT_ESTABLISHED (bug #22300)
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed 100% CPU usage of VBoxTray which happened under certain circumstances (bug #22123)
Windows Guest Additions: Now also ships the VBoxAudioTest binary for performing guest audio testing / diagnosis
Windows Guest Additions: For older Windows versions (Windows 2000 to Windows 7) install alternative Shared Folder driver which avoids some compatibility glitches of the usual driver
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed issue when Windows 11 24H2 guest was experiencing BSOD in rare conditions
GUI: Improved representation of disabled preferences contents (mask+font) when it is shown with certain Linux themes
GUI: Fixed issue when seamless mode was not properly enabled or disabled in appropriate time according to GA status events
GUI: Fixed rare crash on macOS hosts on application exit
GUI: Fixed small 7.1.4 regression in preferences windows when filter editor was not in focus
GUI: Introduced improvements in Advanced properties/settings dialog area
GUI: Restored missing functionality to change bridged adapter at VM startup if current one wasn't found
GUI: Fixed issue when Show action duplicates were created on macOS host in attempt to switch between running and powered off VMs
GUI: Fixed regression when 3D acceleration check-box was not available for certain guest OS and graphical controller types
GUI: Restored lost Help button for preferences windows on macOS
GUI: Restored lost Help button shortcuts for certain windows
GUI: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode
VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset
Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter
VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller
VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set graphics controller to "QemuRamFB" using modifyvm command (bug #22232)
Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect
Network: Added changes which replaced NAT engines with libslirp
Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025
Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings (bug #21877)
Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel
Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation
Solaris host: Removed the VirtualBox GUI shared objects libqgtk2styleVBox.so and libqgtk2VBox.so from the Solaris installation packages as they depend on GTK2 which is EOL and no longer supported
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.13
Linux Guest Additions: vboxvideo: Added improvement for kernel 6.4 support and fixed issue when graphics could be frozen when using VBoxVGA adapter
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.12 in vboxvideo
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Added latest NLS update for Turkish, Indonesian and Italian languages
VMSVGA: Improved flickering, black screen and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels (bug #21955)
NAT: Fixed issue with restoring 7.0.X saved state
VBoxManage: Fixed breakage of "list vms" and "showvminfo" for inaccessible VMs
Windows host: Fixed system DLL size checking which failed with Windows 11 24H2 and recent Insider Preview builds (bug #22162)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12 (NOTE: In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add "kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" parameter into kernel command line or unload corresponding kvm_XXX module)
Linux/Arm Guest Additions: Added possibility to automatically upgrade Guest Additions via Devices menu
EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)
EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes
GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly
GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method
GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI
NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)
NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty
3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings
3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs
3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling
3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs
GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x
API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion
API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started
Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading
SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)
This is a major update. The following new features were added:
GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
GUI: Improved overall accessibility
GUI: Update the version of Qt used
Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility
To view the change log for a legacy version of VirtualBox see the documentation for the relevant Oracle VirtualBox release.
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